Posted on 06/29/2003 10:35:42 AM PDT by Mister Magoo
You know what's really sad? In two hundred years someone will land on the moon and find the US flag there. They will be very confused. They will look at the USA as it exists then and wonder how America ever made it to the moon. Kinda like we see the pyramids today and wonder how Egyptians could have ever made such magnificent structures.
You are probably correct on both points. If you have some capital, the ex-pat lifestyle can be fun and glamorous. There are several towns in Mexico with large, mostly retiree Anglo communities. They love it down there. Large swaths of the USA will become like that.
The downside is that those who depend of the sale of their labor for a living (esp unskilled labor) will suffer. Their standard of living will be averaged out over the hordes of third worlders....leaving them with a lifestyle similar to that of a mexican migrant or african coolie.
What asians, or the white middle class for that matter, want is not relevant. The economic elites want mass immigration to supply dirt-cheap labor. The big-government political elite wants a compliant third world voting bloc. The fact that our borders remain wide open almost 2 years after 9/11 shows just how powerful the special interest groups are who want this continued flow of immigrants. Not even a massacre of thousands of americans can stop it.
So, no, I don't think that the asians want a zimbabwe-type arrangement. As to whether they will live in walled compounds with the remnant white population....i'm not sure. It depends on the demographics. In Hawaii, the Asians are the absolute majority, and they generally have a negative, hostile view of whites and frequently discriminate against them. In those areas where the asian population is smaller, they will probably integrate fairly easily with the white minority ex-pats.
I'm not so sure, by the way, that zimbabwe is a good example. I don't think that the same level of antagonism exists between anglos and mexicans....so I think that the analogy is more like the anglo retirees living in various mexican cities. They have nice lives down there, generally speaking....but they don't have political power and they don't have the same protections and freedoms that our limited government Republic used to give Americans.
Damn, if I have to feel like that again--in my own country.
On second thought, there are areas in town I am sure I could feel like that.
A random thought. I brought my daughter to a schoolmates birthday party some weeks back. They are a Mexican family. We were the ONLY non-hispanic people there. Well, us and another Dad from her class I actually got to know during a power outage waiting to vote last November. Where were all those tolerant soccer mom types? Seems only the two evil conservatives showed up to the party.
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