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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (989)	11/10/2004 1:30:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1968

Arizona Calling The brewing immigration backlash. You really like stirring up the pot, don't you? Its clear you've been watching things American for quite some time. You know, what's really baffling --from a European perspective-- is that the US's immigrant-bashing is mainly aimed at... Hispanics and, among them, Mexicans. I mean, compare that situation with Europe's: over here, Mexicans wouldn't even be considered "alien" or "illegal"!! Hey, Spain and Portugal are full-fledged EU members since 1986... We think of Mexicans like the Germans think of Turks. And just for the record, Mexicans and Spainiards are two different people. The actors in the Mexican novellas may look European/Spanish; however, the majority of the population is either Meztiso..half Indian/half Spanish.....or full Indian. Many of these people are extremely poor, uneducated and come from rural areas. They move to American cities where they live in crowded tenements. In spite of the fact they are now living in a city, they continue to act as if they live in the country. It can lead to considerable friction between them and native Americans. While we in Europe must deal with immigrants from Africa and from the Middle East, let alone Asia (more and more Chinese are coming in) with mores and persuasions (Islam) very much different, if not at odds, with Europe's traditions, you Yanks can't even stomach fellow white Christians from Latin America?!? Oh, damned! I should have known better... those swarthy wetbacks are not REALLY white, are they? Sorry but you really don't know about what you're talking. Meztisos are not considered white and have cultural practices that are considerably different than those of Americans. And frankly, who are you kidding.........the treatment of foreigners in say Germany or France is not always gracious and understanding. All that fuss about illegal immigration somehow underscores a basic, if ignored, truth: Americans can stand a multiracial society, not a multicultural one... You Americans actually don't know what it's like to get along in a multicultural environment... You welcome people of every hue and shade, provided they cast off their mores, languages, accoutrements and religions and turn into "barbies and kens".... What percentage of the Dutch or Belgian population is non white or non Dutch/Belgian? I think for the Netherlands its 9% non white and 17% non Dutch. And for the Belgians, its 14% non Belgian. Those numbers pale in comparison to the US.......whose population is 77% white [that includes the Latino Meztisos I spoke about earlier]; 13% black; 4% Asian, 1.5% Alaskan Indian; .5% Pacific Islander, and 4% other. I believe Latinos make up 10-15% of the 77%. Clearly, the US is dealing with a much more diverse population than Europeans. Besides, how well do the Flemish and the Walloons get along? Periodically, don't disagreements flare up? Aren't they of the same race even though they speak different languages? I will agree that Americans are xenophobic but we have done a lot more mixing of the races and ethnicities than other nations. And it shows.