Posted on 11/07/2005 2:42:16 PM PST by B Knotts
That's a very good point. How many people know that 1950s pop star Ritchie Valens was actually a young guy from Los Angeles named Richard Valenzuela, and he had to be trained to sing the words to his trademark song "La Bamba" phonetically -- because he didn't speak any Spanish?
I'm still trying to figure out how these "impoverished youths" afford cell phones, internet use, scooters, and the gas to drive the scooters, as well as the gas for the bombs. Gas is almost $7.00 (American) in France!
BTW, did you know that Chirac's approval rating in France was 35%----before all this started???? Most of teh French can't stand Chirac, and like America. His main support is Parisan urban elites, celebs and academia (sound familiar?).
If such a poll was taken among second and third generation, then I would be concerned.
Your point has nothing to do with what I said.
I was refering to the point made in the article that suggested that the Muslim uprising in Europe is a preview what what the Mexican immigrants will do in the U.S. in the near future Which I find to be nonsense.
France clearly does not. Old Europe has been hollowing out it's culture now for at least 200 years, since the French Revolution, if not before. Already by WWI it was an empty shell. It is a testimony to the edifice built by Christianity that it lasted for 500 years after being split in two culturally in the 1500s.
Our culture is not quite so deracinated, but is a long way down that path toward ruin. In order to assimilate Hispanics (and immigrant Muslims who wish to be assimilated--the others should not be permitted in--though how to distinguish them would be a nightmare and would be slapped down by the liberal thought police, which is one more reason why SCOTUS has to be transformed), we not only have to change border policy, get rid of silly multicultural and ethnic enclave education approaches etc. but we also have to find our way to some sort of consensus about what really holds us together as Americans. The Red-State/Blue-State divide is in many ways a cultural divide, with Blue-Staters in many cases taking a self-loathing attitude toward the remnants of the culture that produced them. Perhaps the underlying center is strong enough to reassert itself--some recent electoral trends indicate that, but the divide between Libertarian conservatives and religious/social conservatives shares some characteristics of the divide between Blue and Red-Staters. It's complicated. I am not really at all optimistic (a rational analysis) but remain hopeful (a religious or ethical virtue).
From the Migration Policy Institute:
Mexico represents the largest source of immigration to the United States. Of the 32.5 million foreign born covered in the March 2002 Current Population Survey, 9.8 million or 30 percent were from Mexico.
From the Migration Policy Institute:
The largest immigrant group in the United States is composed of people born in Mexico, according the Census 2000. This group is also growing rapidly. And while Mexican immigrants are still settling in "traditional" destination states, such as California and Texas, over the last decade the foreign born from Mexico, like other immigrant groups, have begun moving to "non-traditional" settlement areas such as Georgia.Bogus statistics, my ass.
- There are approximately 9.9 million foreign born from Mexico in the United States.
- There are more foreign born from Mexico in the United States than any other immigrant group.
- Between 1990 and 2000, the number of foreign born from Mexico in the United States more than doubled.
- The foreign born from Mexico make up three percent of the total US population, but 12 percent of the total population of California.
- Mexico continues to be the leading source of unauthorized immigration into the United States.
- About one in every five immigrants who obtained legal permanent resident status in 2002 was from Mexico.
Psst! Don't tell the French ... LOL
And are you so sure you understand Coughlin, if you are so convinced Buchanan is his acolyte? Evidence, please.
I do think we need to crack down on illegal immigration, though. And we should design our legal immigration system to be beneficial both to the immigrants and to the country as a whole.
Multiculturalism is a miserable failure. Immigrants, while they can certainly retain their ethnic identities in certain specific (and limited) contexts, must also become part of the whole, in order for a cohesive society and culture to exist.
That, I think, is the lesson from what is going on in France, in Europe, and across the West.
Drudge:
"Citizens Mount Anti-Riot Protests"
THIS is getting good!....gotta run to the store for popcorn! :-)
Any society which eats froglegs for dinner is a sitting duck, especially to an army of Muslim thug terrorists.
There's a reason Islam is "the fastest growing religion in the USA". Our government sees to it that it is.
Birth Country |
Legal USA Immigrants 2002 |
Muslim population percentage | Estimated 2002 Muslim Legal Immigrants |
Pakistan | 9,415 | 97 | 9,133 |
Iran | 7,230 | 99 | 7,158 |
India | 50,228 | 14 | 7,032 |
Philippines | 45,250 | 14 | 6,335 |
Nigeria | 7,872 | 75 | 5,904 |
Ethiopia | 6,635 | 65 | 4,313 |
Bangladesh | 4,616 | 85 | 3,924 |
Egypt | 3,348 | 94 | 3,147 |
Morocco | 3,137 | 99 | 3,096 |
Turkey | 3,029 | 100 | 3,023 |
Jordan | 2,927 | 95 | 2,781 |
Albania | 3,362 | 75 | 2,522 |
Russia | 13,935 | 18 | 2,508 |
Somalia | 2,444 | 100 | 2,444 |
Iraq | 2,450 | 97 | 2,377 |
Lebanon | 2,956 | 70 | 2,069 |
Syria | 1,938 | 90 | 1,744 |
Indonesia | 1,805 | 95 | 1,715 |
Sudan | 1,883 | 85 | 1,601 |
Yemen | 1,382 | 99 | 1,368 |
Ghana | 4,410 | 30 | 1,323 |
Uzbekistan | 1,445 | 88 | 1,272 |
Afghanistan | 1,252 | 100 | 1,252 |
Guyana | 6,809 | 15 | 1,021 |
Sierra Leone | 1,492 | 65 | 970 |
Kenya | 3,209 | 30 | 947 |
Algeria | 759 | 99 | 751 |
Niger | 808 | 91 | 735 |
Saudi Arabia | 735 | 100 | 735 |
Romania | 3,655 | 20 | 731 |
Azerbaijan | 746 | 93 | 697 |
Togo | 1,187 | 55 | 653 |
Kuwait | 707 | 89 | 629 |
Malaysia | 1,200 | 52 | 624 |
Serbia and Mont. | 2,994 | 19 | 569 |
Bulgaria | 3,825 | 14 | 536 |
Liberia | 1,766 | 30 | 530 |
Cameroon | 927 | 55 | 510 |
Senegal | 522 | 95 | 496 |
Eritrea | 556 | 80 | 445 |
Thailand | 3,126 | 14 | 438 |
Israel | 2,741 | 14 | 384 |
UAE | 380 | 96 | 365 |
Tanzania | 554 | 65 | 360 |
Tunisia | 353 | 98 | 346 |
Cote d'Ivoire | 483 | 60 | 290 |
Kyrgyzstan | 356 | 76 | 271 |
United Kingdom | 9,527 | 3 | 257 |
Macedonia | 653 | 30 | 196 |
Germany | 5,064 | 3 | 172 |
Canada | 11,350 | 1 | 168 |
France | 2,375 | 7 | 166 |
Uganda | 455 | 36 | 164 |
Libya | 140 | 100 | 140 |
Mauritania | 131 | 100 | 131 |
Guinea-Bissau | 176 | 70 | 123 |
Fiji | 1,095 | 11 | 120 |
Burma | 1,193 | 10 | 119 |
Tajikistan | 137 | 85 | 116 |
Sri Lanka | 1,246 | 9 | 112 |
Mali | 124 | 90 | 112 |
Singapore | 582 | 17 | 99 |
Nepal | 2,095 | 4 | 84 |
Georgia | 735 | 11 | 81 |
Oman | 76 | 100 | 76 |
Turkmenistan | 84 | 87 | 73 |
Qatar | 72 | 100 | 72 |
Argentina | 3,129 | 2 | 63 |
Japan | 5,971 | 1 | 60 |
Bahrain | 59 | 100 | 59 |
Zimbabwe | 358 | 15 | 54 |
Panama | 1,164 | 4 | 47 |
Suriname | 180 | 25 | 45 |
South Africa | 2,210 | 2 | 44 |
Zambia | 280 | 15 | 42 |
Cyprus | 123 | 33 | 41 |
Australia | 1,836 | 2 | 38 |
Brazil | 6,331 | 1 | 38 |
Hong Kong | 3,574 | 1 | 36 |
Sweden | 963 | 4 | 35 |
Burkina Faso | 60 | 50 | 30 |
Netherlands | 981 | 3 | 29 |
Guinea | 29 | 95 | 28 |
Cambodia | 2,263 | 1 | 23 |
Malawi | 62 | 35 | 22 |
Italy | 1,644 | 1 | 16 |
Djibouti | 16 | 94 | 15 |
Maldives | 15 | 100 | 15 |
Burundi | 74 | 20 | 15 |
Angola | 59 | 25 | 15 |
Croatia | 1,153 | 1 | 14 |
Brunei | 20 | 63 | 13 |
Benin | 76 | 15 | 11 |
Mauritius | 57 | 20 | 11 |
Mozambique | 36 | 29 | 10 |
Greece | 651 | 2 | 10 |
Madagascar | 40 | 20 | 8 |
Chad | 8 | 85 | 7 |
Mongolia | 153 | 4 | 6 |
Malta | 37 | 14 | 5 |
Norway | 320 | 2 | 5 |
Cen. African Rep. | 6 | 55 | 3 |
Comoros | 3 | 86 | 3 |
Swaziland | 23 | 10 | 2 |
Namibia | 40 | 5 | 2 |
Aruba | 27 | 5 | 1 |
Botswana | 27 | 5 | 1 |
United States | 32 | 4 | 1 |
Rwanda | 109 | 1 | 1 |
Bhutan | 15 | 5 | 1 |
Slovenia | 64 | 1 | 1 |
Reunion | 3 | 20 | 1 |
Lesotho | 5 | 10 | 1 |
TOTAL | 95,577 | ||
LOL
Good point!
The barbarians aren't at the gates in Europe, they are all inside. Invited guests.
When you allow a poisonous snake access to your home, don't be surprised when he strikes and kills your wife and children.
He is a poisonous snake after all!
The USA has done the exact same thing that France and the rest of Europe is guilty of.
The snake is coiled and ready to strike right here in the good ol USA too my friends.
One cannot find a single issue with respect to Israel and the Jews in which Buchanan's views are separate and distinct from that of Coughlin. This is not surprising given that Buchanan's father was a big Coughlin supporter and the kids undoubtedly grew up listening to Coughlin because of it. Coughlin became such an embarrassment to the Catholic Church because of his anti-semitic views that they ordered him to stop his radio broadcasts.
The British gave up India in or about 1947, hardly 300 years ago. Both the Brits and the French still have one or two colonial islands left, I believe.
I would like to think that Texas is prepared.
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