> As a side note from our last thread, my black Christian friends from Africa have explained to me a lot of things about how things are in their home countries. They want to do missionary work among the rural people who are largely illiterate and steeped in superstition. They don't like, for example, female genital mutilation, and want to end these barbaric practices. But the despotic dictators tell them that that would be "forcing their beliefs on others"! I said that sounds just like liberals in America! Also, everything is done through bribery. Of course, these decent, Christian, hard-working people who are fluent in English are not bad enough off to be considered "refugees", so when it comes to immigration, the very people who are most likely to assimilate and add something to our country, are usually last in line for citizenship here, while the very same primitives who they want to teach better ways to are first in line! Ironic, isn't it?