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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (284657)	4/21/2006 2:00:53 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572266

Re: Like I've said before, Europe is America in the 1960s. Well, not quite. For all the immigrant/ghetto youths' anger at French society, 2006 France is not 1956 Eisenhower America! You don't have signs that read "blacks and colored served in rear" in Marseille's cafés... White Frenchmen don't picket schools and universities to protest the admittance of black and arab students. So, France's starting point is somewhat higher up on the scale of segregation/racism --much higher than Jim Crow, anyway. How exciting......the French have de facto segregation. That can be even more dehibilitating than the in-your-face kind. 4. Unlike the immigrants of old, who bade farewell to their native lands forever, millions of Mexicans have no desire to learn English or become U.S. citizens. America is not their home; they are here to earn money. They remain proud Mexicans. Rather than assimilate, they create their own radio and TV stations, newspapers, films, and magazines. They are becoming a nation within a nation. And they are being sent home: Feds Warn Companies Using Illegal Workers washingtonpost.com 5. These waves of Mexican immigrants are also arriving in a different America than did the old immigrants. A belief in racial rights and ethnic entitlements has taken root among America’s minorities and liberal elites. Today, ethnic enclaves are encouraged and ethnic chauvinism is rife in the barrios. Anyone quoting Calvin Coolidge’s declaration that “America must remain American” today would be charged with a hate crime. They didn't look too chavinistic today when they were being busted. You need to be careful whose POV you choose to read. Americans face a similar challenge today since they, too, deny that the US could behave like a colonial empire --abroad. Algeria?! Oh no! We, Americans, are not like the French... we don't intend to "colonize" Iraq... we don't plan to settle over there! We're on a short-term mission to mop up evildoers, enforce a regime change and... away we go! And we won't be colonizing Iraq. We have managed to elect leaders who think like 19th century Europeans. Their power has gone to their heads. I do believe they are on their way out.