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To: tejek who wrote (255453)	10/15/2005 5:15:38 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571198

Sweden sports an amazingly high birth rate at the top of Western Europe. Believe Italy is at the very bottom. Taro

To: tejek who wrote (255453)	10/17/2005 3:55:09 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571198

Re: The most integrated of the major Western nations is the US. Europe would learn a lot if they studied what the US has done to promote race relations and encourage integration. I think the European nations are about 20 years behind the US in this area. Oh, no doubt about that! Indeed, Europe still has to set up her own Guantanamo camps to accomodate her unruly Muslim immigrants.... As I said, you Americans confuse multiCULTURALISM with multiRACIALISM and "integration" with "assimilation". The US's been very good at assimilating ethnic minorities and turning them into black/latino/yellow/... Joe-SixPack's. When most of your Blacks, Chinese, Koreans, Native Americans, Hispanics, etc. speak English with a Texan twang, watch the Super Bowl, indulge in BBQs, and attend a Judeo-Protestant church, you tell the world how good you are at "integrating" other races... You say, look at our minorities, see how we've successfully "reprogrammed" them into non-white Joe SixPacks... and you erroneously call it "multiculturalism". But the truth is, you've only achieved a multiracial monoculture. Unlike Europeans, Americans don't have the faintest notion of a society where immigrants can regularly travel back home every other month, where (North) Africans keep wearing their traditional dresses (pagne[], jellaba,...), watch their satellite TV-channels instead of local networks, etc. So, my point is that, as far as multiculturalism is concerned, it's Europe that's a generation ahead of the US --especially when it comes to integrating Muslim* minorities, however painfully. [*] sogiex.com Re: A few years back I read an article by a US professor that saId the US would have no whites left by the 22nd century. I think the article was intended as a scare piece but it makes you wonder what they world would be like without whites. I think it would be a huge loss. Well, you seem to insinuate that a whiteless world would be but a hellish, decadent cesspool of sorts... an opinion you might want to discuss with Chinese people: travelsphere.co.uk ehp.niehs.nih.gov