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Author Topic:   With a dying white race, why are we not encouraging more white births?
Percy
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Message 56 of 237 (774525)
12-18-2015 4:12 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by caffeine
12-18-2015 3:16 PM


I'm moderating, not participating, but I just had to respond to this:
caffeine writes:
Ask! When I go to US I have to fill out a form (online nowadays) which includes questions asking if I intend to engage in terrorist activities or try to overthrow the government of the United States. I'm sure they catch loads of people that way.
Omigod, you're serious, aren't you. We are truly clueless.
--Percy

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Message 58 of 237 (774531)
12-18-2015 5:14 PM
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12-18-2015 4:12 PM


Percy writes:
Omigod, you're serious, aren't you. We are truly clueless.
If we are clueless then we at least have a longstanding consistency about it. While just now reading The Family I learned that in the first decade of the 20th century before being admitted through Ellis Island you had to swear you were neither a bigamist nor an anarchist. I won't venture a guess how a bigamist might answer, but wouldn't an anarchist be honor bound to swear, "I am not an anarchist"?
--Percy

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Message 193 of 237 (775018)
12-26-2015 8:53 AM


Where'd the topic go?
Putting it in my own words, isn't this topic about concern that the USA is headed in a demographic direction that will cause supposedly undesirable changes like this:
  • The dominate skin color will be darker, with the only question how dark
  • The most common names will be names like Jorge or Tusajigwe or Ahmed
  • English will become the small-print second language appearing on all our products
  • The heros of our history books will become Spanish or African or Arab
The USA has a clear identity in most people's minds, and so the concern is that the identity that we so love is changing in ways that will eventually turn it into a foreign and unfamiliar place. But those of us of a certain age know the country has already indelibly changed from the way it was and is never going back. This has ever been the case. The 50's or 60's or 70's or 80's or 90's or whatever decades shaped your impression of what the country is supposed to be are gone, and they aren't coming back. Whatever direction the change takes, change is going to happen. It's inevitable.
--Percy

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