Posted on 07/07/2015 5:05:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES — A GENERATION ago, this West Coast metropolis became a “third world city.” At least in the rhetoric of certain East Coast thinkers.
A 1991 book by David Rieff cited visitors who were stunned by “seeing nothing but brown faces, hearing nothing but Spanish on the streets.” The arrival of coffee-colored Latino masses (like me and my Guatemalan-American family), together with the spread of Mandarin and Korean logograms on street signs, led Mr. Rieff to call this the “capital of the third world.”
As a native of the city, I was offended to hear it tagged with such a denigrating label. But in recent years, and for different reasons, I’ve come to believe that a metropolis of the “developing world,” to use a more polite expression, is being born here.
Its center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.
The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind. The cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.
“If it feels like there are people living on the streets and under bridges everywhere you look, it’s because there are,” Bianca Barragan wrote for the website L.A. Curbed last month, after a survey by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found an 85 percent increase in the number of people living in tents and cars over the past two years. In all, the census counted more than 25,000 homeless people in the city, up 12 percent over the same period.
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Any city with large number of illegal aliens is pretty much all 3rd world cesspools. It is bound to happen when these communities allow and even encourage large scale immigration of ignorant, uneducated, and unassimulated people.
“How Los Angeles Is Becoming a ‘Third World’ City”
Once upon a time democrats were elected to office.
The End.
Inequality isn’t what made LA a third world bung hole, it was government and the lack of immigration control. Mexicans stream across the border, Chinese spit out anchor babies at birthing centers, H1B visa holders overstay as do students and other visitors. Schools teach in over 60 languages, the courts are filled with foreign criminals, hospitals struggle, the roads are filled with trash and horrible drivers.
But nobody seems to care.
“E pluribus unum” - just an old saying for whitey that puts down the black man.
Leftism is truly an evil, mental disorder.
The movie “Elysium” was not great overall, but I think it was pretty accurate in its depiction of where LA is going as a city. The interesting thing is that the movie shows that the Elite know this, but their Political Correctness keep encouraging the policies that fulfill the prophesy.
Tip the country on it’s side and all the shit lands in LA.
How or why did Los Angeles become a third world cess pool?
There is a very long list topped off with the big three:
1) Illegal immigration
2) We have become a salad bowl instead of a melting pot.
3) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Becoming? Already is, and has been for awhile.
From the NEW YORK TIMES, I guess they call that deflection.
The problem is the level is now so high we are all in it up to our ankles. At least.
It is both LEGAL immigrants and illegal aliens that are changing the culture and values of LA.
“found an 85 percent increase in the number of people living in tents and cars over the past two years”
In the Glorious Age of Obummer? How can that be, Hector? You got everything you wanted—a fraudulent Kenyan bisexual lazy Marxist for president. Maybe the problem is global warming, right Hector?
Tip the country on it’s side and all the s**t lands in LA.
Here is where the spelling checker fails and causes confusion. Correction:
Becoming a ‘Turd World’ City
Gotta keep some Whiteys there to earn some money to pay for the indolence and crime of the non-workers.
It has been a 3d or even 4th world city for years. ALL of Kaliforniastan has. My wife’s brother lives in the hill country outside of Bakersfield. He said that the drug growers are all over those hills planting and it is all Mexicans. He carries a pistol on his hip when he is outside his house. He said that he sees people going across the hills and meadows around his area all the time carry packs and stuff. He knows it is the mules carrying the dope they have just cut. They light up their house outside at night so he can keep a watch on everything because their out-buildings have been broken into at night and things taken, like rakes, shovels, picks, etc. The dopers steal the garden tools they need from the farms around there!!! And he said it is all, sorry but facts are facts, are Latinos of some sort.
The movie “Elysium” was not great overall, but I think it was pretty accurate in its depiction of where LA is going as a city. The interesting thing is that the movie shows that the Elite know this, but their Political Correctness keep encouraging the policies that fulfill the prophesy.
The elites, no matter where they live or in what country they are currently in have ALWAYS had a low disregard for the masses and show it by their attitudes, actions and segregated walled-in residences or communities.
It’s been that way throughout all of history. Name me a country and a time period and there they are acting the same.
It’s just taken them longer to get to this point here in the U.S., but they’ve managed to do it anyway.
I’m supposed to feel-—what....
i threw up four times reading this
Do any of these people speak English? Do any of these people
understand American values of free enterprise, self reliance, responsibility for one’s actions?
“During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city is still-strong “downtown business
establishment,” which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area’s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents.
Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.”
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