Posted on 06/27/2007 6:56:14 AM PDT by rattrap
That graphic cracks me up.
But seriously, would people care, or even NOTICE, the ethnicity of someone else if they shared the same culture and values?
There was a family in a German heritage small midwestern town that adopted a black baby girl and raised her in the community. She grew up, was raised in the same culture as everyone else, went through high school - and seriously, people didn’t even notice that she was black - to the point of being embarrassed sometimes.
It seems to be, based on the cover that they have a picture of, (also, several of the nation names are the exact same, so, I’m going to say this is it)
And having said this is it, I think it is a book everyone in America should read. I do think it oversimplifies things by not factoring in specific things in the various nations, for example, in the gulf states, the divide between the coast and the interior, but, I found it to be spot on. As someone who travels the country alot, I have often experienced culture shock.
I suspect that somewhere in the world there are a few people that don’t discriminate or have predjudices but I haven’t met them. Diversity is nothing more than camoflaged hypocrisy.
Diversity is ginned up by the radical left and swallowed by those who choose to follow its mantras.
Diversity is described as making people aware of their differences. This only serves to create tension and conflict.
It comes from the radicals who want to recreate the Marxist dialectic using racial, ethnic, religious and even “sexual orientation” differences to create conflict and bring about a new socialist society.
The conflict created by the diversity propaganda becomes a means of justifying more government power in the name of “diversity.”
At one school last year a “tolerance troupe” performed using the “N” word on stage and inciting anger in the audience of high school students. It was designed to radicalize them about “diversity.”
No nappy-headed hoes on the moon?
Texas, now that is another place as well. Texas could easily be a country on its own. Its people still think passionately about being Texans.
I use this as a bumper sticker.
Yup!
Just pulled a new quarter out of my pocket, and right there at the bottom is the motto: “E Pluribus Unum.” “From Many, One.”
I am of Italian descent - 100 proof! When my families came to America they longed, with all their hearts, to become Americans.
At family gatherings, a few of us still speak a little Italian, we certainly cook Italian and look Italian!
But...we are all Americans, and very proud of it.
That national pride and love of country and a common language is the cultural glue that holds a country together.
How can it be that so many purportedly bright people, i.e., senators, cannot understand this premise?
My new tagline. True and to the point. Thanks!
I’d agree about northern va, but not the others. Just because Northerners come in doesn’t mean they make it more northern. If anything, a transplant often finds he has to watch what he says unless he offend someone.
What I am saying though is, there is a weaker sense of national unity down here than the rest of the country, and I think of any region in the country, we are most likely to break off if conditions favor such an outcome. Remember, alot of northern born merchants lived down here before the first war, and we still seceded, and while they had initially opposed it, once we had made our course of action clear, they were as loyal to the cause as everyone else. And I seriously doubt any Southern black is going to cede to a federal government it’s right of basic protection, it’s just not going to happen.
“My new tagline. True and to the point. Thanks!”
Always glad to help. ;)
I live down here and agree with you.
I’ve even heard a ranking member of the police department here tell me that IF an order ever came down from “on high”to begin a weapons roundup, you’d see fistfights at and even hear gunfire from the local cop shops ‘cause a of these guys KNOW what will happen once our would-be masters have all the guns. They don’t want to be slaves either.
And if you’ve never heard him speak, go to
http://reformed-theology.org/realaudio/
and scroll down to “Southern Heritage.”
POWERFUL STUFF!
Time to start up the National Social Diversity Action Party or NSDAP for short — oop wait bad idea.
There might have been Chinatowns, Italian neighborhoods and toxic neighborhoods in most major cities, but the critical part is that the overwhelming majority of all those ethnic or national groups were scattered throughout the population. Still are.
That is why the concept of "Americans" is possible. Otherwise we would all today be described by our tribal past. Silly season.
Without some strong easily perceived physical differences, most Americans are indistinguishable from one another; language, customs and attitude is what binds them together as a whole, greater than the sum of its parts.
It takes a conscious decision NOT to assimilate; Conversely, it takes not only a conscious decision but effort to assimilate. If one is treated as a helpless savage unable to care for oneself and treated as a pet, the dark side of human nature takes over.
If I can survive with no effort, and I am told that I am just as good and valuable as people who actually are, why should I seek change in myself?
Exactly.
They also fear an intelligent society which begins to ask questions.
Diversity is good when your in the food court at the mall.
“Multiculturalism, as we conservatives have always instinctively known, WEAKENS society, and assimilation strengthens it.”
Many races? Fine.
Many cultures? Real bad idea.
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