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"We are so impressed with your rainbow of acquaintances--surely, your life must be a shining example of someone who basks in the sunshine of diversity by having so many wonderful friends from all corners of the earth.
Please, oh please, make up--I mean--gush--I mean--tell us some more tales--err--stories of your wonderful melting pot of friends and their fascinating foods and quaint activities.
They are so convincingly true!"

Well, wiessewurst was the only thing I recognized.
Try going to college, Mr. Reason. You might meet people with new and diverse things to add to our country. Maybe instead of bemoaning low teen birthrates, you should be bemoaning low male graduation rates.
Also, it's worth noting that of the people I have mentioned on this thread, I am the only one who was on financial aid.
Maybe you're right. Maybe we would have done better without those dirty immigrants like Kissinger.
Hey, I'm not talking about letting anyone or everyone join our great nation. I just object to the idea that the lowering of the teenage birthrate is a problem. What are you, some kind of dirty Catholic? (Half Irish, half Catholic Bavarian myself, so don't get insulted. Try reading John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath." These are the people who made us strong. Just like the Mexicans now.)
Maybe the "Not me not now" abstinence campaign that started in my city and spread through the country is taking effect. Maybe the cautions against the disease foolish bigots like you think only happens to homosexual men have had an effect. Wanna be just like Africa, which despite ridiculously high birthrates, can expect a 15-30% decline in population in the next 10-15 years? We can do that -- tell your little girl she should have babies before she is fully adult and able to make sensible decisions about what that boy wants to do to her.
My main problem with this whole thread is: So teenage girls are having less babies? Excellent. When your fifteen-year-old daughter gets pregnant, you'll feel very differently about this issue. When we look like China with their compulsory abortions, you'll feel like a fool. We don't have to worry about low teen birthrates. We should celebrate it.

(PS -- it is true there was a factual inaccuracy there. (Typo.) It was my *Grandfather* who was an Irish immigrant. My father was of Danish descent. Those darn pastry eaters! They ruined our culture!)

-- Woo Way

For someone advising others on what to read, you might learn to read yourself, as it seems everything I wrote went right over your head.

Let me make my stand as simple as possible for you:

WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.

Can you read that?

P.S. I am familiar with Steinbeck.

And I have read his "Grapes of Wrath."

I also know better than to form a world view from reading works of FICTION.

And Steinbeck, for your information, may well have been a commie; commies certainly seem to love him.

Here's a refresher course for you. At the following NPR link, you can listen--so along with most NPR listeners, you don't even need to know how to read (providing you understand the English language, about which I have doubts): http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/grapesofwrath/index.html

They even have pictures for you to look at!

And you can listen to a Woodie Guthrie song inspired by the "The Grapes of Wrath."

And if that is not enough, you can really orgasm there by viewing a video clip of Henry Fonda playing Tom Joad in the movie version.

P.P.S. Don't impugn my understanding of the world, its cultures, and its people, either.

P.P.P.S. And don't tell me in my own country, where to live.