[marron]

Would a multicultural America, built on the sifting sands of postmodern meaninglessness and existential despair, provide any basis for hope?

The problem, in my view, is that the people teaching our kids believe in these shifting sands of postmodern meaninglessness and existential despair, and we pay them to do it. If not one more Mexican crossed the border it would all be just as lost, because these same people would still be teaching our kids.

Mexicans, by the way, don't believe in existential despair, they walked a hundred miles across the desert to pack meat. Their kids will, though, because they will graduate from an American high school.

[Lexinom]

Very well said, marron. Mexicans are largely Roman Catholics. It's not they who are bringing in the relativism and situation ethics and their concommitant cultural decline. Mexican family values in many ways put their American counterparts to shame: they generally care for their elderly, value all human life (born and unborn), and maintain a strong family unit.

Rather, it's the postmodern thinking of the educrats that is ALLOWING the ceding of our American culture by forcing Americans to fund the teaching of Spanish as a pragmatic response to the influx of Mexican immmagrants. This is consistent with, and allowed by, the postmodern relativism embraced by said educrats.

It is a sad situation. I feel sorry for those Mexican kids.

[FITZ]

My neighbors were from Mexico --- their child spoke only Spanish until age 4 and they placed him in an all English private preschool --- no teachers spoke Spanish and most of the kids didn't. School started in August --- by the end of October that kid was speaking English half-way fluently. It's sad because so many of the parents from Mexico here refuse to do that for their children --- they insist they be in all Spanish classrooms ironically called "bilingual" and they never learn English, the public school is too happy to accomodate that.