Couldn't agree with you more Destro.
What people call racism is really what I would call "culturalism" or "valuism". I believe there is very little true racism - people that believe that one race is completely superior to another - but there is a tremendous amount of "culturalism" - people that believe one "value system" is superior to others. And this is perfectly understandable and valid, despite all the crap that the multiculturalists toss around!
As soon as someone can articulate that then we can relax a little regarding immigration and the like. The best way to do that is the public school system - created in America for two reasons (many people forget) to assimilate immigrants and to create a work force with some education to work in machine factories. This is exactly what the Public School system did until the late 60s. Why it failed is many fold - mostly it failed because industrialists who supported legislation for public schools to create a viable work force vanished as American manuf. industry vanished. Without the practicality of the industrialists that focused congressmen - the Public School system fell into the hands of what I call "educationists" - who feel they should educate for the sake of education alone rather than to any practical purpose.
In reality the West is not shrinking (dying) alone. It seems industrialization and wealth reduce population reproduction because you don't need that many children and children become expensive - see Japan as an example (Israel's population is also shrinking as richer Israelis have less children too). In poor countries the poorer you are the more children you need to help contribute to the family and you need more children as a defense against high mortality. Brazil and India.
A mention must be made to the effect the death toll of the last century took on the Western world's reproduction ability. I don't know what if any impact the destruction of the World Wars and Communisim had if any but it should deserve some pondering.
In conclusion, whenever I see "Death of the West" rants I have to read it with some scepticisim because there seems to be an agenda behind the declaration.
I welcome return comments.