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America no longer white, united, English-speaking
The Miami Herald ^
| 02 April 2004
| Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by MegaSilver
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To: Torie
Argentina has a higher GDP/capita than:
Mauritius
South Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
Guadeloupe
Mexico
Malaysia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Botswana
Costa Rica
American Samoa
Brazil
Turkey
Thailand
Namibia
Gabon
Panama
Colombia
Fiji
Samoa
Saint Lucia
Venezuela
Dominica
Peru
Grenada
Belize
Swaziland
China
El Salvador
Philippines
Paraguay
Guatemala
Guyana
Jamaica
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Ecuador
Indonesia
Vanuatu
Cuba
Lesotho
Equatorial Guinea
India
Bolivia
Honduras
Vietnam
Nicaragua
Tonga
Guinea
Zimbabwe
Papua New Guinea
Ghana
Bangladesh
Laos
The Gambia
Angola
Mauritania
Cameroon
Solomon Islands
Burma
Cambodia
Senegal
Cape Verde
Cote d'Ivoire
Sudan
Togo
Nepal
Haiti
Bhutan
Djibouti
Central African Republic
Sao Tome and Principe
Uganda
Rwanda
Benin
Kenya
Mozambique
Burkina Faso
Chad
Liberia
Republic of the Congo
Mali
Nigeria
Zambia
Niger
Madagascar
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Guinea-Bissau
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tanzania
Malawi
Somalia
Burundi
and Sierra Leone.
To: garbanzo
With Pat, it only seems to be the brown-skinned folk who can't handle democracy now or even generations hence.Democracy, too, is beside the point. BTW, we are NOT a democracy, and it was on purpose. A whole lot of you "Conservatives" don't seem to be aware of that fact.
To: wardaddy
The Nordic immigrants came about 50-70 years later.I know. Millions came to America in 19th century from third-world dictatorships - Ireland, Italy, Russia, Bohemia, etc. Today these are not all third-world. But in 19th century they were. People came for economic reason and became Americans. Why should today's third-world be different? Because they are not white?
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:12:37 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: LWalk18
"This is not the first time immigration had supposedly "doomed" our country." It is the first time that it has been virtually unchecked with regard to health and economic risks though. It used to be that you had to have something to offer and be free of disease and parasites at the very least to be allowed to immigrate here. You also couldn't be a criminal. It was a matter of protecting the public and economic health of our country, as well as preserving the security of the nation. Now, we're too d*mned concerned about "offending" someone to even enforce our own laws. Now, not only can practically anyone with the means (legal or illegal) get in, but we feel it necessary to reward them by giving them a free ride at OUR expense, as well as caving to the pressures of the radical fringe leftist groups who are hellbent on conferring to illegals all the rights and privileges of citizenship while at the same time making a mockery of the country to which they address their demands.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to preserve our culture and protect it from being diluted to the lowest common denominator. It isn't about race. We've always been racially mixed. It is more about common values of the dominant culture....shared by all the races that are part of it. It is also about common language. Immigrants were once expected to learn the language; in fact, were required to do so to attain citizenship. Now we're supposed to print our ballots in every language on the d*mn*d planet to accommodate people that don't even have the legal right to vote. What is wrong with this picture?
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:15:41 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: Alter Kaker
People came for economic reason and became Americans. Why should today's third-world be different? Because they are not white? I think the main difference between then and now is our big government welfare system, "Stupid White Men" in Academia and the Media, and the mass media.
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:16:57 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Had to cool me down to take another round, now I'm back in the ring to takea-nother swing")
To: sweetliberty
...and educate every child whether they are a citizen or not. THAT one just makes my blood boil.
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:17:45 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: Torie; wardaddy
Argentina and Uruguay both have a far larger GDP/capita than Thailand, Tunisia, China, or India.
To: Bonny Dick
Argentina has a higher GDP/capita than: (list of African countries)Bosnia-Hertzegovina has a lower GDP/capita than:
Swaziland
Lesotho
Ghana
Zimbabwe
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Namibia
Seychelles
Botswana
South Africa
Mauritius
So what is your point?
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:21:23 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Cronos
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian, Indian, Chinese, civilized the planet.
Damn shame they all developed amnesia.
To: bonfire
"and educate every child whether they are a citizen or not." And educate them in what? Hatred of the country they've sucked off of their whole lives; that's what.
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:21:29 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: Bonny Dick
The Koreans have got a developed nation (notice the term "developed", first world is a cold war terminology that is no longer relevant (as there is no second world viz. the Soviet Union)) as have the Singaporeans
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:22:24 PM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: cyborg
My father wanted my sister and I to learn 'college stuff' as he put it.Sounds like quite a guy. If the immigrants we are arguing about were like him we probably would not be having this discussion.
To: iconoclast
I don't think many know that we are talking about culture here, not race or ethnicity. And, yes, there is such a thing as American culture.
Correct.
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:25:37 PM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: MegaSilver
Ummm, when my Cherokee Great-gramma married my Cajun Great-grampa in 1840-sumpin, America wasn't "white, united, English-speaking". My family wasn't even "white, united, English-speaking". America, despite the best efforts of some on the left AND the right to portray is as such, was never "white, English speaking" only. We would be united, if they would stop trying to use race to divide us.
My family did add some of those "white, English-speaking" folks in later, but it was just for the diversity requirements...
To: iconoclast
I don't think many know that we are talking about culture here, not race or ethnicity. And, yes, there is such a thing as American culture.
Correct.
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:25:50 PM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: iconoclast
Incidentally India cured it's biggest "diversity" problem by carving off a portion of their country
Hhuh?
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:26:10 PM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: sweetliberty
I don't disagree that we need tougher enforcement of immigration laws. In 1924 we passed a law that greatly restricted immigration and it served to allow those who were here to assimulate our values. We need something like that again- and I strongly believe that the immigrants here today would assimulate within a generation or two.
237
posted on
04/03/2004 2:27:08 PM PST
by
LWalk18
To: Dog Gone; Torie
She slams Costa Rica and touts Tunisia and Thailand, even though Costa Rica has a considerably higher GDP/capita, but then she is from California where such attitudes are de rigueur.
To: Dan from Michigan
It's time for the census and other government places to stop classifying me by race. It's not their business. This should be a color blind society, and it can start there.
Yes, and the same thing for college reservations
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posted on
04/03/2004 2:27:57 PM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: ronnieb
"If you are not aware of it, you should be, that you cannot be a citizen of Japan unless you are racially Japanese."
This hasn't been true for a long time. There are plenty of naturalized Japanese citizens with non-Japanese ancestry.
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