Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by MegaSilver
In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.
We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.
We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.
In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.
By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.
Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.
Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.
Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.
Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?
Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.
Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.
America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.
If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.
Not terribly surprising he answered, "India,... and nobody else is close!"
I guess curry doesn't favor him.
Sorry couldn't resist your obvious jab at India.
And that relates to BushMeister's point in what way?
Apparently you need some ZZZZ's.
And God forbid they work 10 hours a day washing dishes or make beds and on Sundays the Priest mentions the Virgin Mary and they hope for one of their children becomes a Doctor who makes a significant advancement against cancer.
The horror of that reality.
Who cares, so what? Why must you obsess on race?
Yeah, so?
There's only one poster on here that's always right, and it ain't you! ;o)
Hispanic is not a race, it's not even really a culture anymore. Spanish is a culture and a language, but the various "Hispanic" cultures often don't have much in common except the language and in most cases the Catholic Church. The Church they of of course share with Poles, French, Italians, and Irish.
Argintinans are mostly "Euro", while some Cubans and Puerto Ricans have signifigent African ancestory. Even among mestizo groups there is considerable variation in culture depending on the Indian ancestorial culture, even just within in Mexico you have the northern tribes (Apache for instance), the Aztecs, and the Mayans, just to name three. The biggest problem with most "Hispanic" cultures is that they were under the thumb of the Spanish, rather than the English, and it still shows. They are accustomed to having a "Don". Makes them good Democrats, but they aren't stupid and that only lasts a generation or two, again same as the other non English/Scot immigrants.
True, they are fleeing the depostism and political and economic mismangement of the "European" elites.
Interestingly, Pat is one of those rare politicians with a sense of humor and a ready smile and laugh. God willing, you will find the same ability.
(I assume you meant IMO).
It wasn't a jab, it was a sob.
Care to convert that into a percentage? I doubt it.
I don't, but my daughter did, more or less, (more like the one on the left actually) when they were that age. The older one now speaks fluent Spanish, fluent enough to royally chew out the local manager of a Mexican affiliate of Greyhound, and get letters of apology from the head of that affiliate and from the regional US manager as well. :) (And that was while she was only a student, now she's a lawyer). The younger one is completing her first year teaching. She speaks some Spanish as well, and is picking up the "Mother tongue" (German which forms a significant part of their ancestry from both sides) from her boyfriend who is of Irish ancestry. Both girls have Gaelic names, even though there is no known Irish ancestry in either my wife's or my families.
OTOH, when I asked a Swedish exchange student who I once dated what I looked like, that is what she would think I was if she ran into me in Europe, and she said "American". I can live with that! It's just as well, since there are large gaps in my knowlege of my ancestory anyway. Both grandfathers were adopted, and we have reason to believe the maternal one may have had a large chunk of Spanish ancestory. (his middle name of Carlos for example :) )
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