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To: Ohioan
from an American standpoint.

Yeah, yeah, all Europeans and everyone else understands the American ethos but Hispanics don't. Whatever. Fantasy world.

78 posted on 06/25/2003 4:10:05 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (I barbeque with Sweet Baby Ray's)
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To: JohnnyZ
Yeah, yeah, all Europeans and everyone else understands the American ethos but Hispanics don't. Whatever. Fantasy world.

It is you who are in the fantasy mode, my friend. But I will thank you not to distort what I write. If you actually read my essay Immigration & The American Future, rather than just skim what I have written, you would know that I hardly suggest that all Europeans understand the American ethos.

Certainly, Europeans will have a lot more perceptions in common with Americans, than people from any other racial or ethnic background, but they hardly can be expected to automatically understand the American ethos. That is nonsense. They have had a different data bank of experiences, quite dissimilar to those which made the Founding Fathers rather unique. While I would not cut off European immigration, I would certainly restrict it to small numbers at a time, of people with skills that we need--small enough numbers that we could expect those coming to be acclimatized to our ethos within a decade or so; and not sit in huge ethnic enclaves, voting for Leftwing candidates, as did so many for over a generation, whose parents came when the floodgates were open before the 1920s.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

107 posted on 06/26/2003 8:28:39 AM PDT by Ohioan
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