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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: John who wrote (77514)8/24/2012 10:14:36 PM
From: Larry S.1 Recommendation  Read Replies (4) of 103300
 
You are asking for a lot; though it should be obvious. I had hoped that we had left thinking that allowing different cultures was bad behind in the 50s. I had that same thought in the 60s, then in the 70s but I guess there are parts of our Country that think like many did when I was a kid in the 30s. I swore that I would never become a Democrat [and I haven't; though there seem to be more bigots among Republicans these days than Democrats] when I learned that it was with the help of the local Democrat Party Leaders in the Northwest that many of my grade school class mates were sent off the concentration Camps. Yet, all of the young men served in the armed services and better citizens than most. One of my classmates became the chief medical officer at Annapolis.

When I came East to work at Bell Labs after the War, I was confronted with a world that was very different from the world in which I grew up in the NW. Each ethic group had it own enclave. I thought it had diminished and then I became a representative of Bell Labs in International Data Communications Standards Organizations. I had a lot of success because I showed respect for everyone. I witnessed many of our own lose because they looked down their nose at everyone. I learned that we are not respected in any country around the world but, individually we could be respected if we showed respect for others. I could give you a long list of key technologies or international standards that would not exist today if those who considered themselves above the rest had had their way.

Some facts might motivate you to think a little. Our fertility rate is now well below 2, and remove the latino contribution and it is even lower. The fertility rate in the Christian dominated world is less than 1.8. The fertility rate in Iran was 7 put to a few years ago and is now 4. You can imagine what it is in the rest of world. Think what the population distributions will be 100 years from now. And many of the high fertility rate countries believe that causing us the loss of life will assure them eternal life in heaven. Yet, I can assure you that the vast majority have the same basic interests and motivations as we (at least, most of us) do.

We have to learn to get along with others and growing up in a multicultural society should help. If we don’t some of the worst projection for our future may come true.
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