Mark Steyn: Bicultural Europe is doomed

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/15/05 | Mark Steyn

[Paladin2]

They're DOOMED!

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[untrained skeptic]

"But a talented ambitious Chinese or Indian or Chilean has zero reason to emigrate to France, unless he is consumed by a perverse fantasy of living in a segregated society that artificially constrains his economic opportunities yet imposes confiscatory taxation on him in order to support an ancien regime of indolent geriatrics."

Zing!

[NZerFromHK]

Could you add me to your ping list? Thanks.

[voletti]

Steyn's the man.....!

And when Steyn takes to staining euroland, the strains show...

[NZerFromHK]

Ping!

[shield]

BTTT

[MattinNJ]

But a talented ambitious Chinese or Indian or Chilean has zero reason to emigrate to France, unless he is consumed by a perverse fantasy of living in a segregated society that artificially constrains his economic opportunities yet imposes confiscatory taxation on him in order to support an ancien regime of indolent geriatrics.

That's got to leave a mark. I wish I had 1% of this man's wit.

[wizardoz]

But a talented ambitious Chinese or Indian or Chilean has zero reason to emigrate to France, unless he is consumed by a perverse fantasy of living in a segregated society that artificially constrains his economic opportunities yet imposes confiscatory taxation on him in order to support an ancien regime of indolent geriatrics.

God, he's good...

[onevoter]

Mark Steyn for President! (We need someone who can tell it the way it is and stop being so easily pushed by the left!)

[Steel Wolf]

"Politics in France is heading to the Right and I don't want Right-wing politicians back in second or even first place because we showed burning cars on television."

If you don't like French conservatives in power, wait till you get a load of Muslim conservatives in power. Fact of the matter is, within the next 20 years you're getting one or the other.

[chatham]

Au Revoir.

France deserves to be Doomed.

Thanks Mr. Steyn, Beautifully written.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Another great article from Mark Steyn!! So, could you add me to your Mark Steyn ping list?

[Alexander Rubin]

Steyn is just something else, eh? Glad he's on our side.

"But a talented ambitious Chinese or Indian or Chilean has zero reason to emigrate to France, unless he is consumed by a perverse fantasy of living in a segregated society that artificially constrains his economic opportunities yet imposes confiscatory taxation on him in order to support an ancien regime of indolent geriatrics."

[gcruse]

they were "united in sorrow" - i.e. enervated in passivity. Instead of wishing death on the perpetrators

It took a few months after 9/11 for yellow ribbons to come out and begin displacing the American flag, but it happened nonetheless.  So far, we haven't yearned our way to victory,  but at least we suppressed those tacky pictures of bodies falling from the Trade towers and other things that might have kept us outraged and supporting the war.

[Slings and Arrows]

Mark Steyn for President! (We need someone who can tell it the way it is and stop being so easily pushed by the left!)

He can't be - he's Canadian by birth. Now, if we were to install him as Supreme-Dictator-For-Life of Canuckistan, OTOH...

[Fanter]

Do you request others to shut up while speaking up yourself at every possible occasion?
- Do you ask others to respect agreements while systematically flaunting them yourself?
- Do you think Hitler was bad but Napoleon was good?
- Do you think De Gaulle liberated France?
- Do you vote for corrupt thieves and/or liars?
- Are you proud when companies from your country buy businesses abroad but you are opposed to the sale of your national companies to foreigners?
- Do you think a nation with a GDP 4 times less than yours should financially contribute more to the EU than your own country?
- Have you ever heard of Jacques Attali?
- Do you think 2 weeks of rioting and thousands of cars burnt, not mentioning schools etc., constitute "some isolated incidents"?
- Do you call Iraq an invasion and Ivory Coast a peacekeeping mission?
- Do you think healthcare and education are free because you never received a detailed bill with those items on them?
- Do you think Chirac and Sarkozy are right-wing politicians?
- Can you name two people who made poetry about seagulls?
- Do you think the UN should have more power and responsibilities?
- Do you approve of a commission deciding what words you may use and which ones should be excluded from your language?
- Do you think mimolette is a Dutch cheese?
- Is Total-Elf just a normal oil company in your opinion?
- Is Strasbourg the capital of the EU?
- Did Lance Armstrong dope himself?

If you answered "yes" to one question, you are possibly French.
If you answered "yes" to two questions, you are probably French.
If you answered "yes" to three questions or more, you are almost certainly French.

[Rennes Templar]

"If there's three, four or more cultures, you can all hold hands and sing We are the World. But if there's just two - you and the other - that's generally more fractious."


Let's start a Mexico-to-Europe trans-oceanic migration route.

[Gritty]

I love reading Steyn, but he makes me break out in a cold sweat nearly every time I do!