[Pokey78]

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[TheBigB]

For three million bucks they can’t hire a catering guy who can find them Jew-free bananas?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Tax-chick]

He’s a lawyer, his son was an engineer and qualified pilot (well, except for the landing and take-off part, which he told his flight school he didn’t need to learn). But they’re kookier than the most in-bred backwoods up-country yakherd.

Yes, Islamo-noodles are even weirder than my in-laws ...

[MEG33]

How true..How politically incorrect of him to tell the truth...I love Steyn.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

But the Islamists are much closer to home. Like the Innu, they’re a dysfunctional amalgam of traditional and Western culture [...] Like the Innu, they’re hooked on welfare and the glorification of self-destruction.

[Alberta's Child]

Gas-sniffing is not a traditional native activity. Before the first European settlers came, the Mushuau did not roam the tundra hunting for Toyota Corollas to siphon the tanks of.

If I had several years of time and several thousand pages of paper, I'd sit down and put together a compilation of Steyn's classic quotes. LOL.

[Sentis]

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[Alberta's Child]

Mark Steyn ping.

[Travis McGee]

[gr8eman]

Awesome!!!

[Hat-Trick]

Spot on, as usual!

[ecomcon]

Double throw down Mark Steyn bump.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The fact is that the further you remove people from the Britannic inheritance, the greater disservice you do them...

Ouch! Take that, American Academia! ;)

[timsbella]

All too true. I grew up in Northern Quebec and I can tell you first hand, the kids showed up for the first day of high school, picked up a healthy check and stayed in school for exactly three weeks until moose hunting season started. Hey, they had to stay in town for long enough to buy new gear, but that was the sum total of their contribution to the community and the economy. White men destroyed their lifestyle not with modernization, but with welfare.

And we act surprised when we see their leaders like the one just stripped of his Order of Canada liken themselves to the Palis? Clearly his intent was to expose oppression, but ironically it exposes the folly of a socialist, secular state. Ditto the increase in Islam among African American inner city populations. Same cultural death at the same hands.

[StrictTime]

****sigh****

I loooovvveeee Mark Steyn!

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[TChris]

‘British’ was the prototype multiethnic nationality: if you were a doctor from Kingston-on-Thames or a nurse from Kingston, Jamaica, or an assistant choreographer from Kingston, Ontario, you were British — and, unlike the Germans, race didn’t come into it. ‘The British,’ wrote Colin Powell of his Jamaican background, ‘told my ancestors that they were now British citizens with all the rights of any subject of the Crown.’ That’s correct: in law, there was no distinction between a British subject in Wales and a British subject in Tobago. Britishness was far more of a genuinely multicultural identity than the yawning we-are-the-world nullity of modern multiculturalism. I’m still a wee young thing but my earliest passports bore in bold print on page three the words ‘A Canadian citizen is a British subject.’ It requires a perverse ahistorical fanaticism to decide that Britishness is some shrivelled Little-Englander thing that should never be passed on to our children. It’s always been the great outward, global, embracing identity.

I realize this is only one theme from the article, and not really even the main one, but here goes:

Oh what I wouldn't give for the US at large to return to this philosophy! Why do so many immigrants come to the USA and seek to import their failed cultures with them? If your way was so terrific, why did you flee to the US? If the US is great, and it is, then why not become an American?

Why isn't it an honor to be American instead of the marginal, because-this-is-where-I-happen-to-live designations of African-American, Hispanic-American, etc.? Why marginalize what is the most successful, powerful, wealthy, liberating nation in the history of the world? Celebrate the timeless principles and virtues that tie all Americans together.

Be proud to be American, above all the rest of your heritage! Yes, your ancestry makes you what you are, but your American citizenship is what gives it potential, opportunity and liberty. That, fellow American, is worth your undying allegience to the United States of America and its Constitution.

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Bump! Great stuff, as always.

[TChris]

By pretending that all cultures are equal, multiculturalism doesn’t ‘preserve’ traditional cultures so much as sustain them in an artificial state that ensures they’ll develop bizarre pathologies and mutate into some freakish hybrid of the worst of both worlds.

Another priceless truth, well written, from Steyn, the master.

[Colonel_Flagg]

By pretending that all cultures are equal, multiculturalism doesn’t ‘preserve’ traditional cultures so much as sustain them in an artificial state that ensures they’ll develop bizarre pathologies and mutate into some freakish hybrid of the worst of both worlds.

As if we needed any more proof, this is an indication of why Steyn is the best.