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Let's be honest: Multiculturalism can kill a nation
New York Newsday ^
| 02/07/2006
| james Pinkerton
Posted on 02/07/2006 8:43:16 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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To: muawiyah
Actually I intended to italicise the first sentence. That comment was not mine. I was making a reply.
Eid is celebrated in America, officially, IIRC. The White House hosts an Islamic Iftaar Party. IIRC again.
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:21:11 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: SirLinksalot
This Nation was founded on Unity, not cultural diversity. Somewhere along the way we let the Liberals destroy the Unity and replace it with a ten headed monster.
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:22:34 AM PST
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
To: richardtavor
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:23:33 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
Comment #44 Removed by Moderator
To: hispanarepublicana
Nah, just beat you to it! We are on the same page...it is an easy thing to get those two types of things mixed up.
I see it as one of the most important issues that we need to face. I am an advocate of immigration, I think it is what made our country great, and I mean it. We are all mutts here. Heck, I am French, Irish, Armenian and Italian. But I am not for allowing uncontrolled illegal immigration, and I am all for requiring English language skills to be learned to function in the USA. It is what ties us together.
Ted Kennedy's involvement with immigration back in the Sixties is what really did the damage. Can we undo it? Only if we have the will to do so.
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:24:05 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: SirLinksalot
the worst newspaper in the free world publishes a sane article on the dangers of multiculturalism. I think people must be getting it.
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:29:41 AM PST
by
bilhosty
To: MarneyK
What's happened, I think, is that people have mistaken pluralism for multi-culturalism. But the reason the West is pluralistic has nothing to do with the tenets of multi-culturalism and everything to do with the natural rights philosophy of the Enlightenment.
What the Left has done, of course, is to play the game of dialectic here. Multi-culturalism is the antithesis of natural rights and pluralism. It ends in tribalism.
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:30:06 AM PST
by
Reactionary
(The Moonbats Need an Enema)
To: LK44-40
It is critical to maintain the essence of what has made the culture successful while refreshing it with new ingredients at the margins. Exactly!
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:42:34 AM PST
by
RJL
To: albionvectis
The U S has always been Multi-Ethnic, or Multi-Racial, but they have basically adopted our culture, therefore we have not been multi-cultural in that sense. It is only recently, under the liberals push have the races and nationalities not adopted our culture. "Multi-Cultural Society" is an oxymoron if you go by the common definition of Society = "A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture."
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:43:28 AM PST
by
Forrestfire
(("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
To: SirLinksalot
DOWN WITH CULTURE!
Support
NULLticulturalism!
n. the belief that all cultures are equally worthless and deserving of unrelenting sadistic ridicule
It should be obvious that our effort to influence Muslim public opinion in a positive way has reached a dead end. That is, we advocate democratization but get Islamization. That process empowers the likes of Hamas in Palestine and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.
Democratization of the Middle East is still a good thing. If they democratically elect terrorist leaders, as opposed to having terrorists foisted on them, then we can kill everybody with a clear conscience!
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:43:53 AM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: muawiyah
The only reason you people speak English is that my country was overrun by illegal aliens
Really? What country was that?
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:51:20 AM PST
by
Irontank
(Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty -- John Adams)
To: hispanarepublicana; rlmorel
It's just a matter of definitions as we see them. The multiculturalism I am thinking about is essentially the melting pot -- multiple cultures contribute to the culture in general. We have always welcomed new cultures, and the their best has spread to the rest of society. That is how America is and one reason it is great.
It's not perfect though, as we've long had "Chinatown" and/or "Little Italy" in many major cities. We accepted them for the most part. So now we're getting "Little Mecca" in places. Big deal, as long as they don't try to force acceptance beyond their willing own within their little enclaves. We don't have to respect their culture, but we should respect their rights as Americans to associate as they wish.
Maybe my definition is off, causing this confusion, but that's my point.
To: Mr. Mojo
To: Irontank
So, what country was it you people overran?
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:55:09 AM PST
by
muawiyah
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Comment #55 Removed by Moderator
To: muawiyah
So, what country was it you people overran?
Did I overrun a country?
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posted on
02/07/2006 9:59:50 AM PST
by
Irontank
(Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty -- John Adams)
Comment #57 Removed by Moderator
To: Reactionary
This country is based on the idea that there are innate rights human beings have as human beings simply. Exactly. The multicultural concept leads to the mistaken belief that people behave a certain way or should be accorded special rights merely because they belong to a certain cultural or racial group.
We are a nation of laws and liberties based on INDIVIDUAL righs, not on group or cultural rights.
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posted on
02/07/2006 10:06:50 AM PST
by
randita
To: SirLinksalot
Let's be honest: Multiculturalism can kill a nationExactly !!!
Which is why peoples of other countries that immigrate to the USA must be told in advance that in order to immigrate and become a citizen of the USA you must melt into the USA population by becoming an American. Not Mexican American, Iraqi American, Egyptian American, Jordanian American, Japanese American, Chinese American etc., etc., etc., or even African American.
They must be told in advance that America is not going to change, they must change or just go back.
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posted on
02/07/2006 10:07:58 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
02/07/2006 10:10:12 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings)
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