Re: ...I don't think Europeans know what multiculturalism is. When different cultures do rear their ugly heads, Europeans decide to split up.......see Macedonia, the former Yugoslavia, Moldavo and the former Czechoslovakia. And don't forget all the little blood feuds going on between the Basque and Spain; the Romas and central Europe and the northern Irish.
I've already answered that point:
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Re: For hundreds of years, we have been accepting many, many cultures into this country...
...and you've relentlessly dissolved them in your dominant Judeo-Protestant, English-speaking, anti-socialistic monoculture.
Re: ....in some public schools over a hundred languages are spoken.
Ditto for Europe. However, unlike Europe's immigrants (mostly in Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavian countries), the US's immigrants speak and write English fluently after a couple of years and it takes only one generation to see immigrants' children shed their parents' language and mores altogether.... Contrariwise, I just watched a TV reportage the other day on immigrants who were living in the Netherlands for over THIRTY years and still couldn't say anything in Dutch!!?!?(*)
Re: We have Chinatowns, Japantowns, Little Italys; Germantowns, Japantowns, Greektowns, Korean towns, Little Indias.......the list goes on and on.
LOL... I know! But your problem is that Hispanic immigration has become so massive that soon it's YOU gringos who'll end up in "Little Honky Towns"... LOL...
Re: If we have a monoculture it is much like the monoculture in each European country.
And that's precisely my point: the EU is indeed made up of 25 different monocultures!
Re: But what's different is that underneath we have a veritable smorgasboard of...
...ethnic minorities, all of them molded and polarized by the dominant US monoculture --the Flag, the Bible and the Apple Pie.
Re: Its amazing we don't kill each other over our differences.
LOL! Yeah, tell that to the victims of Timothy McVeigh, KKK nuts, and pro-life terrorist Eric Rudolph....
Gus
(*) Immigrants asked to speak Dutch in Netherlands
09 February 2006
The Netherlands, home to multinational companies such as Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, may ask residents not to use foreign languages in public.
Rotterdam, the country's second-biggest city, last month passed a code that encourages residents to speak only Dutch in schools, at work and on the street as the city struggles to assimilate Turkish and Moroccan immigrants. Now Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk is calling for a similar national measure. Neither move includes penalties for violators.
"I'm for such a code for all Dutch people,'' Verdonk said in a Jan. 31 column in the Amsterdam-based newspaper Trouw. "In such a code, you tell people what's expected of them and hope that they will live by it.''
The proposal is the latest reaction to rising tensions between immigrants, who make up 10 percent of the population, and native Dutch.
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