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How Our Civilization Can Fall
The Ornery American ^ | 2006.12.03 | Orson Scott Card

Posted on 12/22/2006 8:06:16 PM PST by B-Chan

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To: DreamsofPolycarp
the rate of assimilation by the present Latino influx is on track with the rates of previous generations

That's especially remarkable since the left has been doing everything possible to prevent them from learning English. At least earlier immigrants got a little encouragement to assimilate; the teachers' unions and left have created a structure where any child with a "Spanish" last name gets put into "bilingual" classes where they learn bad Spanish and not a word of English.

61 posted on 12/29/2006 5:09:25 PM PST by livius
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To: B-Chan

bookmark for later


62 posted on 12/29/2006 6:39:51 PM PST by Canedawg (In God We Trust)
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To: little jeremiah

However, these doomsday scenarios forget the wonderful flexibiity and will-to-win of the American entrepreneur.


63 posted on 12/29/2006 8:20:22 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Tolik

Thanks for the ping!


64 posted on 12/29/2006 9:25:20 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: B-Chan

This does indeed look to be a good read. I'm going to print it and take it to bed. Thanks.


65 posted on 12/30/2006 1:01:05 AM PST by Lexinom
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To: B-Chan

This is good analysis,but he does not factor that most of the America trades within our borders.WE are the largest market in the world.

Most of the world tries to trade in the American market. Now there is another very large market emerging and that is China . They are importing raw resources all over the world and building a coal fire plant every week.Even if the European colllapses, that leaves two large world markets,the US and China. China is spreading for a large influence over the Pacific and there market is free largely from Muslim issues.The big Muslim populations are Indonesian and India/Pakistan. China does posess the ruthless will to conquere the Muslim threat in the Pacific.

I agree that the economic life blood of a society is trade.But with the huge American and China market under his analysis that would provide the buffer to allow the devasted markets to reemerge.


66 posted on 01/01/2007 12:21:23 AM PST by Rhiannon
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To: taxed2death

"the laughter of fools is like thorns crackling under a pot"

the facts are the facts.

sorry if you don't like em.


67 posted on 01/01/2007 12:56:58 PM PST by DreamsofPolycarp
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To: livius

no arguments here.


68 posted on 01/01/2007 1:00:26 PM PST by DreamsofPolycarp
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To: Aetius

For one thing, our elites have given us a diversity-obsessed, multicultural-worshipping society that is anti-assimilation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I would change that sentence slightly:

Our Fifth column ENEMIES have given us a diversity-obsessed ,,,,etc.....

69 posted on 01/01/2007 1:24:59 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid)
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