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Posted by SilverFox on Tue Mar 29 22:35:47 2005, in response to Re: Answer to the enitre worlds problems and trends: People simply hate people?, posted by AlM on Tue Mar 29 20:20:47 2005. AIM, until about forty years ago, most of our immigration was European in nature. But let's take it back to the Mayflower to prove my point.The original colonists wanted to leave Europe's class-consciousness, religious oppression, and monarchies. They wanted freedom. So, they traveled to what they thought was virgin land. Did they develop a class-conscious caste system here? Did they restrict religious practice (which, for the most part, was the same except for very subtle differences)? Did they establish a monarchical or dictatorial government without free elections? NO. So they DIDN'T take most of their old-world customs with them. Contrast that with today's immigrants. I see saris, burqas, exclusively foreign-languaged signs, and God knows what backward, superstitious, and barbaric customs occur outside the public eye that our culture has deemed unacceptable (like cockfighting, polygamy, and female genital mutilation, to name just three). America isn't infinitely elastic to accept all these radical changes and incorporate them in some productive manner. |
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