Tyrannical wrote:The US has long been known as the great melting pot where
White Europeans united to form a Nation. The melting pot notion never included Blacks, Asians, Arabs, or other non-European Whites. It is the inclusion of these alien cultures and races that has been dragging the US down and causing internal dissension just as it is the Blacks and Muslims causing the problems in France, UK, Germany and other European countries now. Political Correctness has blinded us to seeing the reality even though the evidence is plain to see in everything from crime to education statistics.
"…whence came all these people? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes... What, then, is the American, this new man? He is neither a European nor the descendant of a European; hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. . . . The Americans were once scattered all over Europe; here they are incorporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever appeared." − J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer.
I think the days of most immigrants (of whatever origin) swapping countries because they truly beleive in and want to be a part of the host culture have long since gone (on both sides of the Atlantic) - it's simply a question of economics, IMO quite understandably so. Can wrap that up under the title of opportunity or whatever PC terms are in vogue, can even require folks to salute the flag (or require 'em to drink 10 pints of warm beer and then puke up a Kebab
) but don't change the fact that the host country is deluding itself that folks would still come if things were better economically back
home - and that something that
will be changing radically in the next 20 to 30 years.
