Posted on 11/15/2013 7:04:37 PM PST by milehighmaniac
Positively frightening.——and from a Dem.
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We can become a multiracial monoculture and survive..... but multiculturalism is suicide... culture is a glue that binds a country together.
America’s central tenant is individualism.
Liberal’s praise of multiculturalism—just barely disguising their condescension—is really an expression of their collectivist contempt for the individual.
“So the melting pot makes everything white? I think not. Lamm was full of crap. We have dozens of nationalities and cultures in our country, all worth honoring and preserving, all belonging to Americans.
Deal with it.”
Really? The race card :-)
What does white have to do with anything?
If what you’re saying is that only white people hold American values I suggest you look outside whatever little box you live in. The American Idea is color blind. You agree with/understand America the Idea or you don’t. Very simply, whatever color you are, if you don’t want to be an American first go home.
Thank-you so much for this. It puts concisely what I have been struggling to figure out.
“what really ticks me off, is that my ancestors carved out this great country from the wilderness at great personal cost. And WHY did they do it? for US, their descendants.”
Your ancestors (and mine) were thinking 7 generations ahead. We no longer do that. That’s the problem. For decades we’ve been taught not to protect ourselves nor our heritage in a myriad of ways. For that generations to come will not glean the fruit of their father’s labors as we did.
Funny...many simpletons here would never believe a democrat said this.
Kind of missed the point - they have loyalties outside of being Americans and dilute the sense of what it is to be American. many openly detest America even as they reap the benefits. They are like termites and we keep encouraging them to continue in this vein with statements like "deal with it".
Richard Lamm - the same guy who said some years back that old people had a duty to die & make room or free up resources for the younger generations.
He’s a Soylent Green salesman as far as I’m concerned.
Never understood why anyone would want to destroy the system and society that made it possible for even the poorest to live so well.
“Never understood why anyone would want to destroy the system and society that made it possible for even the poorest to live so well.”
Historically, dictators are only concerned with their power; they couldn’t care less about the average person. They are threatened by prosperity. Obamacare is a power grab; the collateral destruction of our health care system is icing on the cake.
Of course. But there has to be a prevailing culture which everyone becomes part of. When I was a child growing up in Danbury CT, there was a wonderful myriad of cultures and religions. It was practiced in churches, in social gatherings, at cultural/recreation events, in families and neighborhoods. We all enjoyed each other's special events, foods and even church sponsored activities. But when we were together away from those cultural events, everybody worked to live the American dream.
It was that combination...melting pot but respecting individual cultures that worked. If one wants to impose their values, they should stay in their homelands.
This article should be required reading. It's eerily on-target.
I was at a diversity training session at work and the person running the event was going through bullet points about how diversity makes for a strong company and economy.
In fact, I think there’s some truth in that but it’s wildly overstated.
So I asked about a slide earlier in the presentation that showed China and India with rapidly growing economies (this was several years ago). I asked if racial diversity is an essential strength, why were countries with significantly less racial diversity doing so much better than countries with more racial diversity.
The wide eyed, stunned look I got back made it all worthwhile.
YES !!! I LOVE IT when audiences ask those questions that knock robo-speakers off of their pedestals.
I was at a HS teacher's meeting where the principal said she was going to have parent-child-community leader sensitivity meetings to curb violence. I raised my had and asked why she didn't just call the police gang unit to arrest and jail the perpetrators, since a "gang" of juveniles here is legally three or more commiting illegal acts. She said she didn't know that!
“Richard Lamm - the same guy who said some years back that old people had a duty to die & make room or free up resources for the younger generations.”
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As an 81 year old I certainly don’t appreciate that. :-)
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“So I asked about a slide earlier in the presentation that showed China and India with rapidly growing economies (this was several years ago). I asked if racial diversity is an essential strength, why were countries with significantly less racial diversity doing so much better than countries with more racial diversity.”
We have the same problem in South Africa. Lots of diversity training, little productivity.
“America is an idea - a set of ideas. “
Not that again. That’s closer to the French Revolution than anything having to do with America.
America is, or once was, the culture of the people who settled it.
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