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You know what, - the more the better. We are an aging population and we don't have enough young blood to support the welfare of the elderly. It will be a huge problem, and the more young taxpayers we have, the better. We just need to make sure the new Americans are well educated so they can get high paying jobs when they graduate.
I have nothing against brunettes anyway....
Well, we're not. The US is #25 out of 34 countries tested. U.S. Teens Lag as China Soars on International Test - Bloomberg
“The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are,” Duncan said. “This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country.”
Hmm? Do you think that third world countries dont have rich people? In fact big wealth disparities are symptomatic of third world countries.
The richest man in the world is from 3rd world Mexico.
Understood but times were different back then. If we go by what you say there were no 1st world countries back in the age of exploration>* but Europe was easily the closest thing to it if not for the wealth of the common man but its great accomplishments and dominance in military and tech during this period. India and China had a lot of wealth during some of this time but wealth was not evenly distributed there either. Soooo, this should be taken into account when defining what is 1st or 3rd world at these times,it just cannot be compared to the modern age.
This is an excerpt from Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York, describing New York at the time of the Draft Riots:
The census of 1860, the last official count before the riots, fixed the population of New York City, which then comprised only Manhattan Island, at 813,669, of which a little more than half were foreign-born. Among the aliens the Irish were overwhelmingly in the majority with a total of 203,740, while the next highest were the Germans, with 199,984...Other races clustered in similarly national colonies, keeping to themselves, maintaining their own languages and customs, and making no pretense at amalgamation except to become naturalized citizens at the behest of shady politicians who voted them like sheep.
During the year ending July 1, 1860, the total number of persons actually convicted of crime in New York was 58,067. Of these about eighty per cent had been born in Europe...The number of rioters actively engaged in looting, murdering and burning during the week was variously estimated at from 50,000 to 70,000 while some of the individual mobs which swarmed through the streets contained as many as 10,000 frenzied men and women. For the most part they were the human sweepings of European cities who had been packed into ships during the forties and fifties and dumped in ever-increasing numbers upon American shores. A vast majority landed in New York and remained there, and soon found their natural levels in the great gangs of the Bowery, the Five Points and the other areas into which gangsters had spread and become firmly entrenched. It was these gangs, swarming from their holes at the first indication of trouble, that formed the organized nuclei around which the rioters rallied.
This country was 90% White until 1970s when Jewish interests pushed for pushed for the passing of the 1965 immigration act and it began to take hold... much like they did in apartheid South Africa, they flee from the policies they create.
Sound like a Stormfront post where any random Jew supporting a progressive cause= 'proof' Jews are behind the downfall of the west and want to destroy the White race(which most USA Jews belong to). Jews are not borg dude and they are not the reason 1965 immigration reform passed. White non-Jewish liberals are the reason and no they are not controlled by Jews
This country was 90% White until 1970s when Jewish interests pushed for pushed for the passing of the 1965 immigration act and it began to take hold... much like they did in apartheid South Africa, they flee from the policies they create.
Immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean was unlimited prior to the 1965 Kennedy-Cellar Act. In fact, prior to that law most European immigration was severely restricted. Said law did not affect immigration from Latin America. It removed barriers to immigration from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and most of Europe, but if anything actually made it more difficult to emigrate from Mexico for example. It created illegals by making legal immigration more difficult.
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Understood but times were different back then. If we go by what you say there were no 1st world countries back in the age of exploration>* but Europe was easily the closest thing to it if not for the wealth of the common man but its great accomplishments and dominance in military and tech during this period.[/color] India and China had a lot of wealth during some of this time but wealth was not evenly distributed there either. Soooo, this should be taken into account when defining what is 1st or 3rd world at these times,it just cannot be compared to the modern age.
The terms "first world", "second world" and "third world" refer to political alliances during the Cold War. They often corresponded to economic status but not always. For example, Sweden and Switzerland were neutral and thus "third world", while Greece, Spain, and Portugal were "first world" but were poorer than many "third world" nations.
You are all blind.
There is only one color that is important in this country.
GREEN.
That's all that matters.
Americans are Americans.
If you have lots and lots of GREEN, it doesn't matter
what color your skin is.
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