[Alter Kaker]

I bet you are not Israeli born. You talk like an American Jew full of tikkun olam for everybody.

Correct on first point: I was born in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Are you saying you want America to be racially pure?

[wardaddy]

I want my culture (the predominate one here) to remain as such.

America while majority "white" has never been racially pure although at the founding I would venture that freedmen were mostly "white".

I have never given much thought as to how many Asians might have been here then. We obviously had plenty of Amerindians we were in the process of subjugating and there were a fair number of black freedmen (one of whom died in the Boston Masscre).

How do you think Russia would react to having it's culture overrun by an alien one? They don't seem to be too fond of dissident cultures within their own.....Chechnyans for example....not that I blame Russia...I don't much like Chechnya's either.

There is nowhere in the words of the Founding Fathers that I am aware of whereby they proclaimed that we should accept everyone in the world who wishes to come here regardless of the consequences.

Enthusiasm for that came later during the huge Irish and Italian (and others) immigration waves when the new citizens began to dictate more and more policy. The movie Gangs of New York last year touched on that from the immigrant perspective.

Irish and Italian immigrants were more culturally compatible in my view than the Amerindian swell we have today. One could argue that by default the more compatible cultures are defined by race but that is not wholly accurate. There are a number of nations of large English influence that supply more culturally compatible immigrants of all races....particularly if they are of the professional class.

Again as though it needs to be said: We cannot tolerate enormous numbers of immigrants from anywhere period.

I know of no nation on earth that has ever surrendered cultural sovereignty willingly though we and Western Europe (to Islam) may be the first.

As an aside and this is quite chauvinistic....I am more sympathetic to any immigrant group the prettier their womenfolk...unabashedly. I think we should open our doors to many Croat, Czech, Baltic, Old Russian, and even your new homeland gals.....they are most welcome here! Shalom (former Ramat Gan business doer here)