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Quote by: Zeebadee Then you aren't reading all the posts. |
You're right! Sorry. Let me address your points specifically, then. There was this:
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So the answer is to let even more of them in? We're going to have to decide once and for all if a desire to maintain our own culture is a racist trait. We are expected to welcome all who come here, though they don't come to be Americans, they come to be Mexicans in America (or some other nationality), bringing their culture with them. As far as I can tell, there is no record of any "multi-cultural" society lasting any significant length of time. Is it fair to be expected to welcome and adapt to other cultures and yet not have the desire to maintain our own?
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Is wishing to maintain your own culture a racist trait? Not at all. Is believing the very presence of another culture is a threat to your own a racist trait? You betcha! We ARE expected to welcome all who come here to become Americans; I agree that not all do come to become Americans, and the majority of migrant laborers would agree as well: they want, as RM said, money. What I'm talking about is opening the border to those who want to work in the U.S., WITH regulation of whatever kind we deem necessary -- I would think work permits, with some kind of background/criminal record check, along with some "migrant laborer" driver's license for transportation and identification within the U.S., but this is all beside the point. They DON'T come here to be "Mexicans in America," they come for money. If the money was in Honduras and Nicaragua, they wouldn't come here. Period. Coming from capitalists, criticism of people trying to make money is pretty damned hypocritical -- especially when it is coupled with rhetoric about saving our culture. Our culture IS money.
There is no "multi-cultural" culture that lasts? Really? Prove it. Or at least, give me one example. One example that is not a colonized nation. One example where one culture was not conquered, enslaved, subjugated, or slaughtered wholesale by a dominant culture. I'll give you one for argument's sake: the U.S. I don't think it is the melting pot, or the Rainbow Coalition it has been purported to be, but it is certainly inclusive of more than one culture, and yet there are cultural artifacts that remain, basically unchanged. The Catholic Mass, for one -- certainly not an "American" invention. Many Asian cultures still retain their cultural views of family, even after several generations, in some cases -- this is why there are still Chinatowns, though most of the "Little Italys" and such are now tourist traps, rather than immigrant centers.
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The problem is that they aren't being paid livable wages. They put their kids in public schools, they avail themselves of food stamps and every other social welfare program they can qualify for, they have no drivers licenses yet drive without insurance, they have no medical insurance so they use the emergency rooms as a primary medical care resource. The employers love the system, they pay minimum wages and the taxpayers pick up all of the social program costs. The employees themselves love the system, they get out of that shithole of a country that cheats the common man out of everything they own and pays them nothing and they come here where the U.S. taxpayer provides all the basic necessities of life totally free. The Mexican government loves the system because the money saved by not having to provide those same basic services to their own people can now be siphoned off by the corrupt politicians that run that cesspool down there. Why would the Mexican government pay welfare costs for Mexicans that can't get jobs when they can have the U.S. taxpayer pick up that tab? Capitalism?? That's ludicrous! The U.S. taxpayers are directly subsidizing all who employ these people.
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Oh, wait, sorry. That wasn't about culture at all. Unless you include this rant of yours against the Mexican migrant stealing all of our welfare money and clogging up our schools and hospitals. Is that what you're suggesting we "defend" from a Mexican invasion? I would like you to count, please: how many illegal immigrants -- and I'll even accept that term to mean Mexican migrants, though it doesn't mean that, because I know that's what you want to say -- actually commit crimes in the U.S.? How many illegal immigrant children are in public schools? How many illegal immigrant families use food stamps? Get welfare? Use ER's as their primary medical resource? Drive without insurance?
Got that number? Great. Now:
Count how many Americans do those same things.
Who's costing us more?