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To: elmatador who wrote (26999)	12/28/2007 11:56:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217906

Actually ElM, NZ was doing fine while "Anglo" philosophical foundations held sway. That ended decades ago and I don't think it's a coincidence that the economic success ended too. Karl Marx, [a well known English gentleman] took over and my mother reported that her father in the 1930s, when Karl Marx ideology started to hold sway, said that that was the beginning of Game Over. So it was. But it's not really "Anglo" philosophical foundations so much as a subset of "Anglo" ideas involving private property, individuals as sovereign over themselves, rule of law rather than kleptocrats, which enable great things to happen. There is also the necessary ingredient of lots of excellent DNA meaning the sort that makes mobile CDMA and gravitational constants. Homogeneity is fine. Japan has it and has done well and continues to do so. England had it and did extraordinarily well. I prefer "good brains" to "new blood". New blood by way of Mexican low socioeconomic [meaning low IQ] invasion does NOT provide "better ideology and better philosophical foundations". Islamic Jihad moving into NZ will not enhance the place. Mqurice