Posted on 04/28/2015 7:29:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/28/2015 9:37:16 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Is immigrating from less-developed countries to the West a good or a bad thing, for host and guest? Is the immigrant angry at, or nostalgic for, the country he left? Is he thankful to or resentful of the country he has come to? Does the Westerner know why the other seeks him out or why he himself chooses not to emigrate to the non-West? These questions and dozens like them are not so much never answered as never even asked. The result is chaos.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The Perils of Designer Tribalism
"......... It is part of the ethos of designer tribalism to foist all of one’s own attitudes and longings onto the apparently blank canvas of whatever primitive populace happens to be in vogue at the moment. To some extent, this is simply a matter of ignorance, as illustrated, for example, by Christopher Columbus’s report that the people he discovered “are very gentle, and know nothing of evil.” But the culture cultist supplements ignorance with heavy helpings of ideology and idealization. He looks at an exotic culture and, lo and behold, he finds himself looking into a flattering mirror. This is one reason that natives always seem to be non-smoking, vegetarian, sex-worshipping, drug-taking, eco-conscious, progressive-thinking pacifists—according, anyway, to the press releases distributed by the culture cultists.
Sandall speaks in this context of anthropology’s tendency to “normalize the primitive while treating civilization as aberrant.” Consider the Maoris. In contemporary New Zealand, Sandall notes, one finds “a miscellaneous army of teachers, academics, government servants, clergy, radical lawyers, progressive judges, journalists, and numerous other bien pensants promot[ing] the revival of traditional Maori culture even more fanatically than the Maori do themselves.” He cites an Anglican priest who rails against the “monocultural grip on all our institutions” that British colonialism supposedly still exerts (if only!), and cites various teachers who wish to return the education of Maori children to the tribes. In the background is a rose-tinted view of the Maoris as a peace-loving, ecologically conscious, spiritually delicate people who have been abused for two centuries by hard-bitten, materialistic Europeans.
In fact, the ecological record of the Maoris would not win any plaudits from the Sierra Club. Shortly after paddling up to New Zealand in their canoes eight-hundred years ago, the Maori indiscriminately burned huge swathes of forest. They also decimated the wildlife. Actually, “decimate” is far too weak a word. Within a short time, Sandall notes, some 30 percent of the bird life on New Zealand had become extinct thanks to the depredations of the Maoris. All twelve species of moa, for example, a large, flightless bird without natural predators before the Maori arrived, became extinct some six-hundred years ago. According to Sandall, it was perhaps the fastest megafaunal extinction ever recorded. Not that the Maori were particular about where they got their protein. Divided into numerous tribes, they were incessantly at war. Prisoners were routinely baked and eaten. But all of this is papered over. And even as the Maori past is systematically distorted and rewritten, so their future is jeopardized by government policies that, in the name of “bi-culturalism” and preserving tribal customs, dooms its beneficiaries to a life of second-class citizenship........"
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Our govt just does not have the stones to say we don’t want a bunch of nasty azz people coming in from nasty azz places to our nice civilized or at least formerly civilized nation. As I believe Newt Gingrich once said if you bring in the third world you get a third world.
All Legal immigration is great, no matter where it comes from, and no matter how many come, no matter how many years they keep coming without pause, year after year after year. The spread of Islam in our homeland is a wonderful thing because those migrants mostly come on legal visas.
/Every GOP candidate except Walker (and maybe Santorum).
I suffer no guilt. Close the borders to all.
When Western civilization and America is immigrated into disappearing forever, then it is gone, and that is it, lost for all of time, erased from the planet.
If we ran this country right and made people work for a living instead of leeching off the rest of us, stop forcing BS education rules on every locale tied to government funding, and made employers really PROVE their needs (and their inability to find qualified citizens), we wouldn’t need ANY immigrants - illegal or legal.
Immigration of any fashion is rooted in liberal goals to ensure a like-minded populace, one that is amenable to voting for largess, period.
To them, individuality and accompanying rights guaranteed by our Constitution are a roadblock to liberals’ power goals. The only way to change it is to encourage and entice a new majority. This is immigration today - in all of its forms. The individuality, freedom and hard work that built this country is being supplanted by those that want to rape it of all its treasure. It is as simple as that.
Excellent post!
If only we could get enough citizens to read this and respond accordingly...
this is insane. What is the West guilty of?
I agree. Our legal immigration should be no more than about 50,000 people per year. And those should be educated and bring something to offer to the country. Most of our legal immigration should be from Europe and Canada. Not Africa and the Mideast. The muslim culture just does not mesh with our society. It needs to be stopped.
IIRC, we have been at 1 million per year since I came back in 1976 from the service. I read recently our immigration has been over 51 million during that intervening period. Responsible for 82% of this country’s population growth.
The goal is to change the voter base to elect a permanent Democrat majority. Lately they seem hell-bent on hurrying this up before the 2016 elections fearing a backlash from the abject failure of Obama.
leftist redistributionist = Votes and job
Voting cures that
Too many people want to 'look good' rather than 'be good'... It's time to stop destructive 'immigration'... and give up silly delusions.
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