What will a white-minority US look like? (wages, illegal aliens, Obama)
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I have no idea what you're talking about. Cultures CHANGE. Cultures are fluid and not static. In this country and all others, culture has changed, is changing, will change, and will continue to change. The only cultures that don't change are those that are dying, or have died.
I agree. I don't give a rat's behind what skin color future Americans might have. It is our culture and language that is important to me. Illegal immigration and encouragement not to assimilate to them is what I have a problem with. Why isn't our country allowed to retain its national identity and some even wish to change it for some reason. There are also some whojust can't wait till every white skinned, blue-eyed blonde person is irradicated from our soil also and that is just plain racist on their part.
I wouldn't say it is racist. Well, actually it is racist. But I wouldn't say it is motivated by racism. I think it's the whole "demographics are in our favor!" thing that you saw from liberals following the last election. Same as the conservatives who are unhappy about a white minority because of multiculturalism. If the hispanics assimilated into American culture, they wouldn't care if whites became a minority. So in both cases the effect ends up forming a judgement that involves race, but it isn't motivated by liking or disliking that race.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Cultures CHANGE. Cultures are fluid and not static. In this country and all others, culture has changed, is changing, will change, and will continue to change. The only cultures that don't change are those that are dying, or have died.
People will be swarthier on average, whoopidy-do. If you judge yourself or others based on skin color, then you have some serious social intelligence issues. Successive generations of immigrants almost always trend towards assimilation into "mainstream" culture. They still might retain cultural elements of their countries of origin like religion or keeping extended family networks/family life; but they wouldn't be the first immigrant groups to do so.
No other society on this planet is as dynamic as the USA's, it's one of this countries key strengths. Some people are really getting worked up over nothing, lol.
The US bought the Louisiana Purchase from France and our PNW came from England, NOT Spain.
That would be because as Harrier correctly points out Spain sold the territory back to France in the treaty of San Ildefanso of 1800. This undid the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau. It is true the Oregon territory was not part of this, but I never mentioned that and it doesn't change the fact that for quite some time Spain had not only Florida but all the land between New Orleans and the San Gabriel valley.
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Originally Posted by Harrier
That poster didn't say anything about the Oregon territory.
It is true that the Treaty of San Ildefonso is often overlooked.
Spain did hold that vast area(Louisiana Territory) for nearly 40 years - from the end of the Seven Year's War until they signed the ToSI.
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