blackelk wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
blackelk wrote:
Vexcalibur wrote:
Your guy Obama is at best (or at worst) a center-right capitalist crony. That people in the US would call him a left-wing extremist is scary , because it shows how very right-wing the place is.
How right wing is Europe then when they have actual racist parties with power?
Europe is a spent force both morally and intellectually. They just haven't gotten around to realizing they have been dead for 50 years. The only live thing in Europe right now is CERN.
ruveyn
It amazes me that in countries like Austria and Holland, with virtually no minorities, right wing parties can actually get popular support and seats in Parliament. These countries are like 90% white, and they are scared to death of their small minority populations. Can you imagine if 1/3 of their country was black or hispanic, and they shared a large border with brown people that ends up with millions of them here illegaly? Hitler would probably rise again.
Hitler can rise again in that dead continent.
The social contract seems to be: "Give me the rights that I say I have, and the benefits I think I deserve, or we the collective, will return to one of our three dumb European ideas: Nazism, Communism, or Fascism."
Multiculturalism (and the EU in general) is a great theory that should have just stayed in the textbooks. You have more diversity in America, and it works, because we demand the melting pot ideal of from many one. You can still keep your heritage, engage in ethnic and cultural institutions that you've brought over from your native land, but remember first and foremost that you are an American, and as such, please take part in our established civic institutions, and our shared culture.
Multiculturalism allows for competing sets of values to be tolerated in a one way direction: the establishment tolerating the newcomers. It only works for so long.
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28 Oct 2012, 12:00 pm
