Posted on 05/18/2019 2:56:17 PM PDT by Twotone
If you've been paying any attention at all to journalism in recent years maybe not a good idea, but if you have you surely have noticed those stories predicting, often with a certain relish, that the United States is about to become a majority-minority country.
Such predictions, as the Obama administration Census Bureau director noted in 2014, "made demographic change look like a zero-sum game that white Americans were losing." Such fears contributed to Donald Trump's election in 2016. No one wants to vote for the side that seems to be saying, "Hurry up and die."
But are those trends so inevitable? Not necessarily, writes political scientist Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian who teaches in Britain and is of Jewish, Chinese and Latino ancestry. His most recent book is called "Whiteshift," which he defines as "the mixture of many non-whites into the white group through voluntary assimilation."
As he points out, something like this has happened before. A hundred years ago, Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish immigrants pouring into Ellis Island were considered to be of different "races" by white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elites.
Half a century ago, their descendants were regarded as still culturally and politically distinctive in Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan's description of New York ethnic groups in "Beyond the Melting Pot." A "balanced" ticket in those days had to include Irish, Italian and Jewish candidates.
Today, all these groups are lumped together as "whites," even though there are still perceptible, though muted, differences in political attitudes and perspectives between those with different ancestries.
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I see a fair number of American flags flying in hispanic neighborhoods, sometimes even more than in white neighborhoods. I believe these patriotic hispanic neighborhoods are second generation plus, neighborhoods, not immigrant neighborhoods.
Did you know the box set for the Untouchables is not “complete”? We have to pay around $20 more to complete it.
Lacks additional year. But one showing Eliot Ness temporarily blind and frightened due to panic attack is too bad to watch. I wish I hadn’t watched it.
I’m only halfway into ChiPs and fast forward often now-—and never saw even one minute of the series first run.
Naked City uneven and strains to be arty but many are good.
Old Highway Patrol, despite half hour plot simplicity, was so great. No one can beat Broderick Crawford.
But Lee Marvin in M Squad had humor,irony, toughness -—the whole package. So great.
I know if I ever watched a post 1980 series they would have diversity problems,discrimination against feminists-—like a news story. No thanks.
I didn’t know that.
Also, I am unfamiliar with that particular episode.
One character that I would have liked been more than a one time was The Partner. The backer of Capone and others.
My neighbor’s family came here from Cuba in the 50’s. When I first met him told me his family was from Spain by way of Cuba. He is pretty white. His NYC, Italian girl, wife is darker complexed.
I would add that attitude and Christian convictions, conversion and worldview - or lack thereof, determines how we see others and how we are seen.
"There is neither Jew nor Greek (Gentile - any non-Jew), (This covers ALL races on Earth) there is neither slave nor free, (no economic divisions) there is neither male nor female; (no gender divisions) for you are all one in Christ Jesus." -- (Galatians 3:28)
Ban on third world immigration for 100 years should do it...
Even more so, neither “white”, “Hispanic” or “Asian” mean anything. Likewise Native American (Indian) has huge diversity, from white skin that turns red with sun exposure, to purplish black compared to the brownish black of Negroes.
So instead of what they might objectively be called, the interesting thing in what I cited was them marking their racial “preference” out of several choices. But these preferences are what show up in the statistics.
I guess it could be called “cultural appropriation”, in which they want those things positively associated (outside of college campuses) with “whiteness”.
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