Posted on 06/23/2011 5:31:05 AM PDT by MegaSilver
Our children no longer matter. That is the meme. Skin color trumps all in the coming Order.
You think that's bad? When I lived in Miami, going to NYC felt like going back to the United States of America! Then I moved to France in December 2007 and I had almost no culture shock--it was just like going from one expatriation to another!
It's the same pattern that Italian-American families experienced (among others). If not for the illegal part, there would be nothing here of interest.
First of all, most Latin Americans have some degree of admixture (actually, many more Anglo-Americans than one might expect do as well, but this fact is of little significance in our social structure). It is true that the European strain predominates in Puerto Ricans and in the descendants of the Hispanics who happened to live in the Southwest when it was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico. It is also true that there are not a few wealthy blacks, Amerindians, mestizos and mulattos in Latin America. It is also true that some wealthy black and mulatto Cubans were among the first refugees to come to America's shores.
However, most of the Latin Americans who come to the U.S. TODAY are visibly NOT of predominantly European strains. More importantly, they come from the poorest and least European-IZED sectors of Central and South American society. Not only are they poor, but also the cultural norms that they assimilate to tend to be the underclass cultural norms, seriously exacerbating the undeniable social problems in the U.S..
Moreover, there was never a chance that a major political party would be 100 percent overwhelmed by an Italian-American lobby. Italians were NEVER a majority of the immigrants admitted and although there were some isolated cases of Italians pushing for mandatory Italian classes in public schools in certain counties, the Italian language never has been nor has ever had any chance of becoming as ubiquitous as Spanish has become. For that matter, Italians were concentrated in a few areas in the United States. Hispanics are by now VERY spread out and it is hard to find a state--and indeed it is impossible to find a state among the large ones--that does not have a VERY substantial Hispanic minority.
Not that Italians ever had the chance to become so ubiquitous. And that brings us to our last point: the Immigration Quotas of 1921 and 1924 were passed with overwhelming majorities, with only a scant few dissenters. There was a strong enough sense of national pride and national identity that 1) the country was willing to do what it took to prevent the situation from getting further out of hand, and 2) there was actually something worthwhile for immigrants to assimilate to.
That is not the case today. Try clamming for English-only policies at the State level and you will be shouted down as a racist, even if you favor amnesty for illegal aliens. Both political parties have been talking about mass amnesty and expansion of immigration for the last seven years AT LEAST.
There is no end in sight to this flood of immigration or to the subsummation of the United States into Latin America.
It's the same pattern that Italian-American families experienced (among others). If not for the illegal part, there would be nothing here of interest.
First of all, most Latin Americans have some degree of admixture (actually, many more Anglo-Americans than one might expect do as well, but this fact is of little significance in our social structure). It is true that the European strain predominates in Puerto Ricans and in the descendants of the Hispanics who happened to live in the Southwest when it was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico. It is also true that there are not a few wealthy blacks, Amerindians, mestizos and mulattos in Latin America. It is also true that some wealthy black and mulatto Cubans were among the first refugees to come to America's shores.
However, most of the Latin Americans who come to the U.S. TODAY are visibly NOT of predominantly European strains. More importantly, they come from the poorest and least European-IZED sectors of Central and South American society. Not only are they poor, but also the cultural norms that they assimilate to tend to be the underclass cultural norms, seriously exacerbating the undeniable social problems in the U.S..
Moreover, there was never a chance that a major political party would be 100 percent overwhelmed by an Italian-American lobby. Italians were NEVER a majority of the immigrants admitted and although there were some isolated cases of Italians pushing for mandatory Italian classes in public schools in certain counties, the Italian language never has been nor has ever had any chance of becoming as ubiquitous as Spanish has become. For that matter, Italians were concentrated in a few areas in the United States. Hispanics are by now VERY spread out and it is hard to find a state--and indeed it is impossible to find a state among the large ones--that does not have a VERY substantial Hispanic minority.
Not that Italians ever had the chance to become so ubiquitous. And that brings us to our last point: the Immigration Quotas of 1921 and 1924 were passed with overwhelming majorities, with only a scant few dissenters. There was a strong enough sense of national pride and national identity that 1) the country was willing to do what it took to prevent the situation from getting further out of hand, and 2) there was actually something worthwhile for immigrants to assimilate to.
That is not the case today. Try clamming for English-only policies at the State level and you will be shouted down as a racist, even if you favor amnesty for illegal aliens. Both political parties have been talking about mass amnesty and expansion of immigration for the last seven years AT LEAST.
There is no end in sight to this flood of immigration or to the subsummation of the United States into Latin America.
I agree, I flew into Miami airport and couldn’t find anyone speaking English anywhere!
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