Exactly - from the tone of some posts, Highland Games would be banned and their participants exiled back to Scotland. Is that really what the posters want?
Or are Highland Games OK, but non-north European cultures not OK?
Posted on 03/07/2005 6:49:07 AM PST by Pendragon_6
Exactly - from the tone of some posts, Highland Games would be banned and their participants exiled back to Scotland. Is that really what the posters want?
Or are Highland Games OK, but non-north European cultures not OK?
No not what people are saying at all (I hope).
I don't think there's a lot, but there are a few and they tend to make a lot of noise. I get it entirely, the people who do that tend to be leftist goobers who hate America (I was going to say "American culture" but let's be honest) and think this is a good way to attack it.
"There is room for but one language in this country, and that is the English language, for we must assure that the crucible turns out Americans and not some random dwellers in a polyglot boarding house." -- Teddy Roosevelt
The multi-cultural stratification, or "mixed salad" as Hillary has dubbed it, is a liberal strategy to divide and conquer. The left has figured that if they can sub divide the country into the various immigrant groups, they can verbally empower the status of each group and at the same time, keep them in better control by offering to represent the various groups within the Democrat party. I just wonder how long it will take these various groups to realize that the Democrat Party is all talk and no action.
The difference is that the Republican party offers to empower everyone on an equal basis.
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Understand. That sentiment is rolled up in my "pc crowd" concept. My big fear is that we are developing in this country a multicultural society which lacks the "glue" to hold together during hard times and/or crisis situations which are certain to occur. It is difficult to find what I consider "successful" multicultural societies.
My comment about the neighborhoods was just to remind some that even our ancestors may have suffered from discrimination and managed to overcome it. In some cases it was meant to contain the "foreigners." But, as you said, it provided a place to learn and grow. Unfortunately, there are extremists who believe any mention of a heritage other than what they perceive as American is a bad thing.
I don't think there are any successful multicultural societies as far as how liberals define multicultural.
Sorry, I don't buy it........the only empowering I see is that the political hacks in both parties are making it easier all the time for big business to import cheap labor, pay minimal wages then stick the taxpayers with the bills to house, feed, educate and medicate these people to the tune of billions of $ that could be better spent on our own children....federal laws concerning such behavior be damned. That's why we now live in a "banana democracy".
That's just too bad for them, then. Your idea is terrific!
While it's certain that there was some pushing for various reasons, most of which we would now consider to be unethical, I htink the majority of the people who went to the neighborhoods went voluntarily. It's just the smart place to go, someplace where they can communicate well enough to get a job and get repairs from the landlord. There's extremists on both sides of the discussion, and like all extremists the core of their idea is good, it's just the lengths they take it to that's bad, makes it very hard to argue against them.
They have this multicultureal food pot luck at the college my wife works at, pretty fun stuff. She always brings hotdogs, white bread, katchup and mustard, that's her culture. And they go fast too, I think when you look at 12 table feet of "what the hell is that" hotdogs look very safe and welcoming.
Those Macedonian Tumublas were delicious!
E Pluribus Unum!
FYI: Remember when Al Gore mistranslated that as "Out of one, many"? "We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum -- out of one, many." (Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs as quoted in Investor's Business Daily, October 25, 1996.)
Well we know he has at least two personalities... the quiet,well mannered Al Gore and the black preacher Al Gore.
Me too.
I hope so too. I guess, I don't see learning about, via celebrations, other cultures as a problem. When I was in elementary and middle school they did the same thing - have us do a little "geneaology," and made some "traditional" food and bring it in.
I don't understand the fear of ethnic festivals and neighborhoods. I mean, apart from indigestion... ;-)
The universe doesn't revolve around us. Knowing about the cultures in the rest of the world can only be a Good Thing.
I agree - we stopped AMERICANIZING people when they came here - as if being American was something bad - and the left forced people to stay in their little groups - celebrate their own little stuff - it's LIBERALISM at it's worst.
And .. then the liberals had the GALL to blame it on us.
great article bump
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