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Provided it doesn't inflict harm or hinder anyone else's pursuit of happiness, of course.
Maybe it will annoy a couple posters but this weekend I plan on playing some guitar, drinking some beer and maybe have sex out of wedlock. Funny thing is people around the world willl be doing that not just Americans.
Obviously we have a common culture and set of beliefs.
And the nation is holding together just fine.
I don't get the alarmist stuff when this topic is brought up.
I think such alarmist rhetoric is mainly about the changing racial demographics of this nation. The basic premise is that those people aren't like the "real" Americans and those people with their third world backwards culture are ruining America.
It is classic conservative political ideology.
Almost every poster who writes this apocalyptic vision of American culture identify themselves as a conservative.
culture is the a collection of the tools if you will, that we use to satisfy or needs.
for instance food is one our most basic needs, what are the most socially accepted methods of acquiring food? which of all those methods is deemed "higher" than the rest?
why do we have more negative words for people who excel at Business than people who excel at farming? both can make you rich.
I think such alarmist rhetoric is mainly about the changing racial demographics of this nation. The basic premise is that those people aren't like the "real" Americans and those people with their third world backwards culture are ruining America.
It is classic conservative political ideology.
Almost every poster who writes this apocalyptic vision of American culture identify themselves as a conservative.
Of course that's what they mean....but they never come right out and say it with few exceptions.
Some white folks (and i emphasize 'some') are simply terrified of anything moving into the country with a shade resembling a paper bag. All of this nonsense about how multiculturalism and diversity is ruining the country is really about too many brown people being here. It's all too obvious.
In the US, Alabama under George Wallace would be the closest equivalent.
In fact, the idea of (singular) collectivism, rule of the mob concept, dates back much farther than that, in one form or the other, and likely prompted likes of Thomas Jefferson to utter these words:
"The first settlers in this country were emigrants from England, of the English church, just at a point of time when it was flushed with complete victory over the religious of all other persuasions. Possessed, as they became, of the powers of making, administering, and executing the laws, they showed equal intolerance in this country with their Presbyterian brethren, who had emigrated to the northern government. The poor Quakers were flying from persecution in England. They cast their eyes on these new countries as asylums of civil and religious freedom; but they found them free only for the reigning sect."
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Funny thing is people around the world willl be doing that not just Americans.
