Re: ...I think European countries are still more multiracial monoculture working their way...
Nonsense! You mistake "nationalities" for "races"... Although it was common for 19th-century Europe writers and commentators to write on, and speak of, the French "race", the genius of the British "race", or the foibles of the Slavic "race", it no longer is. Scientifically speaking, the very notion of human races has been debunked and all Europeans --be they French, German, Spanish, Polish,...-- view themselves as one big, happy, white family.
Oh, horse puckey.........what about the Indonesian 'nationality' in Holland........they seem to be scaring off the white Dutchmen who are finding emigration a solution. Oh I see......you don't want to get into the issue of racism because white Europeans are just as racist as their white cousins in America.
Well two can play the same game...........its not Canadians vs Americans...........we are all North Americans.......just one big, white, happy family. See.....Europe has nothing over us.
Re: I still contend that the US has absorbed many more different cultures within its boundaries successfully than Europe has.
I agree. The reason is obvious: most immigrants coming from Europe, Asia and the Middle East, however large their numbers, could never --and still can't-- dream of turning whole US cities and counties into "minority enclaves".
I see.........so that's why the Germans stay predominately in Germany and the French in France........so that's why there are no European enclaves in other European countries. Of course that doesn't change the fact that you all are "one big happy family". One big happy family as long as you stay in your own country. Seems to me you speak with forked tongue, white man. North America's Indians had it right when they first laid eyes on you Europeans.
At best, they can sprawl into little Chinatowns, little Italys, etc. But then, their children will quickly integrate and assimilate into the mainstream monoculture, that is, after one or two generations, they'll speak English at home, go to a (preferably) Judeo-Protestant church, watch football and baseball games, and give up on ever travelling back to where their grandparents came from.... Unfortunately (for your Judeo-Protestant ruling elite, at least), this assimilation recipe doesn't work with Hispanics --and understandably so: Mexico is just a few hours' car-drive away, whole cities harbor Hispanic majorities, Spanish satellite TVs and newspapers make Spanish the US's officious second language....
Yeah, that's right. The success of the American culture has been dependent on assimilation and acculturalization. When that doesn't work, then its a problem.
Somehow, Mexico and Latin America are to the US what (North) Africa is to Europe: successful assimilation relies greatly on the impossibility/difficulty for immigrants to keep in touch with their native countries... I have myself travelled to Canada and the US so I know what it's like to feel thousands of miles away from home. I remember walking along the beach in Santa Monica (LA), I gazed at the sea, the horizon, and thought to myself, "it looks like the North Sea, like Belgium's seafront and yet... it's the Pacific!" When I woke up and had my breakfast, people back home were going to sleep.... nine time zones away. Since most immigrants to the US were not idle rich who could afford to travel back home on vacation, their assimilation has been all the easier.
Some Latinos choose to assimilate. Those we will allow to stay. The rest will have to go back home and make it in their own country. |
