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To: Taro who wrote (283722)	4/10/2006 6:07:32 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572571

"Most of the Hisps now invading the US look pretty much within what Europeans would consider "white people". " Maybe. Now personally I think all the race stuff is nonsense. Humans are extremely genetically similar. Showing a lot less variations than many species. As a species we went through a bottleneck a few tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of years ago, and it shows in our genome. So harping over Racial differences is nonsense. But many people do it any way. Many view the Hispanics as non-whites because they are. Native Americans were separated from the Europeans for much longer than even the Africans were from the Europeans. There was essentially zero sharing of genes since those first ones decided to wander out of Africa and to the west and the east. Which gives them a great claim on being non-white. Gustave strikes me as a typical European whose only knowledge of the US is through the media. Yet, they feel they know this country and how things operate. I had my mother in law tell me that when I went to an interview, they would send people out to look at my car to help form an opinion. I asked how she knew that. She said she saw a movie... Race relations in the US are complex and not nearly as,umm, black and white as Gustave has been portraying them.

To: Taro who wrote (283722)	4/13/2006 4:27:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572571

But.. they definitely like your Hisps look more like whites than non whites to European people. Give me a break! The color of their skin may be important to some but that is not the primary complaint about illegals........its their economic impact and the problems that emanate. Having said that, the Americans who would focus on the color of their skin have their counterparts in Europe after all, Hitler did not come up with his concept of the aryan/nordic race, blond and blue eyed, from thin air. In fact, weren't the Swedes his model? Its true that Europe hasn't been as assertive with its biases but there is no doubt why the Arabs live in the suburbs of Paris and not the 16th and 17th arrondisements, or that the Turks occupy a very special part of Berlin and Hamburg away from even whiter Germans. And I understand the Swedes are very concerned about the Turks taking over Malmo and the rise in crime there. Only now......in the last 10-20 years, have Europeans begun to experience the level of racial and ethnic diversity that the US has lived with for centuries. It will be interesting how they react......but I must say early signs are not promising.