CGW wrote:brendan wrote: And as far as Islam is concerned, it wouldn't surprise me to see that in fifty years it's still a pretty small minority religion in the USA, and that cranky Arab immigrant parents are bemoaning how secularized their kids are and complaining about the cultural threat from Jineristani immigrants.
I think you are enagaging in a lot of whichful thinking. But let me address a couple of issues about which I think I have some perspective. The area in which I live has a high number of Orthodox people per capita and and experienced a heavy concentration of Slavic immigration during the late 1800s/early 1900s. My wife is second generation immigrant stock. Her grandmother, who I knew, never learned English. My family is mostly of long established Anglo/Irish stock. The land on which I now live was obtained by my family back in the frontier days. The differences between the immigration of the past and what is happening now are significant.
For one thing, although Orthodoxy was somehwat different from the prevailing Protestantism that existed, both were Christians. I can recall no significant antagonisms between the vast majority of my older family members towards people who weren't Protestants. My grandmother was anti-Catholic, but I think that was more personal due to an unfortunate situation that occurred many years ago. The Slavic immigrants of the past were devoutly Christian, law-abiding, and went to lengths to be America even to the extent that many names were Anglicized and people were eager to learn English. They were of the same racial stock and could be easily assimilated. You could walk down the street and just by looking at people, one had no idea if they were Polish, Russian, German, or Italian ancestry. Also there was no fear, for example, for a Protestant American a hundred years ago to walk through an immigrant neighborhood.
Also the immigrants came here and worked. There was no choice. Nobody came here expecting to be taken care of, least of all, be given preferences over a native-born person.
Contrast that with the immigration now. First off, many immigrants who come are of radically different religions, often hostile or incompatible with Christianity. Eighty percent are of completely different racial stock and are conspicuous and much more difficult to assimilate. Also in many immigrant neighborhoods, it is dangerous for a white person to venture for fear of assualt, rape, or harrassment. I know this from personal experience from living in Texas and Florida.
I think another very important difference has to do with sheer numbers. America has never experienced such a long period of immigration at these levels. In the past, when we accepted large numbers of immigrants, it was only for a limited period and, if the immigration didn't end naturally, the government stepped in with laws to cut off immigration. Hence the country had a cooling-off period period lasting decades during which immigrants were assimilated. This was needed even with immigrants with who were much easily assimilated. Now, massive influx of very different immigrants is now almost assumed to be an on-going condition to go on forever and the forces of assimilation are much weaker.
In the past, the various Slavic immigrant groups formed many organizations, but these were of a different character than the ones today. The Slavic immigrant groups were very patriotic, almost super-patriotic. None were hostile to America, its founding ethnic people, or cultural traditions. Many Mexicans in this country, for example, are resentful that Mexico lost territory to the US in the Mexican War and many openly claim that the southwestern states and California actually belong to Mexico and they intend to take it back through occupation. The result is whenever Mexicans gain enough power, they start eradicating American cultural items and replacing them with Mexican: changing names of schools, removing historic statues, changing street names, altering school ciriculums to reflect a Mexican perspective, etc. Nothing like this happened with the immigrants of the past.
And then we get back to the Muslims about whom virtually all the criticism I made can be applied. But even worse, we have the Muslim model of infiltration and takeover as has been demonstrated in many countries. So its not some idle fear or irrational over-reaction. I've already seen predictions that Europe will be known in the near future as "Eurabia" once Muslims become the majority and Christianity is reduced to insignificance. Its true virtually everywhere that wherever Muslims take control, Christians are suppressed and their influence reduced to insignificance. What sane person wants that?
The white Christian world is in danger. Wishful thinking or avoidance of the fundamental forces will not change things.
