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Entry: War of the Babies--When Modern Warfare and Demography Square Off, Demography Wins Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/war_of_the_babies_when_modern_warfare_and_demography_square_off_demography#25656 Post contents: That the “new” becomes “native” within a generation or two is hardly novel in American context. Immigration and the progressive revitalization of our democracy has been an ongoing, integral component of our nation since Jamestown. What is new is the elimination of assimilation in the process. The open-borders ideal of multiculturalism fills our country with foreign-born inhabitants at too fast a rate for them ever to become “American”, even if doing so should be their wish. A typical, if undesirable, model would be San Francisco’s old Chinatown, where some arrivals from long ago choose to live out their lives speaking only Cantonese; a perilous drive through the neighborhood also reveals some of these expatriates, as pedestrians, never learn the significance of traffic signals, either. “American” is not a race or ethnic group, neither it is a religion or political code. It is the state at which we function – imperfectly, humanly – as citizens in this democracy. Mexico is backward, poverty stricken, profoundly corrupt and oppressive; by “oppressive” I mean it is a shoot-first / f*ck- questions-later police state. Virtually all Hispanic states in this hemisphere have profound difficulty instituting successful domestic democracies. It’s absurd to believe flooding this country with too many, too soon, all from one place will not have profound ramifications. In the wake of the 2005 London bombings, when it became known the jihadists were native-born “Englishmen”, Britain discovered the pseudo-religion of multiculturalism is as insipid as the British Right always said it was, and that by adhering to for as long as it did, the country nursed vipers at its bosom. I hope our own revelation is not as loud – or bloody. Sent at: 2008 07 24