> >Newsflash: The majority of immigrants are people of color.
are they? i'd like to see some figures. i know that a tremendous amount of emigration comes from eastern europe.
i say this bc i know for example, despite the cliches, that most of the illegal immigrants in the US are Canadians (presumably whites).
The need to impose one's culture over >another is a European invention.
is it? from when?
>>Even right wing politicians are claiming that they have no >>problem at all with foreign people, as long as they adept >>well to our culture.
but is this any worse than saying a foreigner can never assimilate for reasons of blood lineage?
Y'all >want immigrants to assimilate because you believe that your >culture is superior?
but is the question superiority? i mean, you could be a total relativist, and still think that your community's mores are worth preserving through the local governing institutions to the point that foreigners will have to adapt to your ways to live amongst you.
>What's ironic is that Europeans hate us and yet, they're the >ones consuming American pop culture.
yeah, i said that to an af-am friend of mine: you consider yourself a victim of america and yet to went to see star wars and the sum of all fears. how ironic to be consuming YT pop culture when you hate em.
seriously tho, people all over the world hate american hegemony and consume american pop culture. and let's not forget the extent to which american pop culture is af-am pop culture. nor should we forget the extent to which the popularity of (af)am pop culture is a function of american imperialism. like wheat and milk, american companies dump pop culture in third world countries until the markets are broken.
ps. why o why, mfreeman, are you using this rush limbaughesque argument about oh, europeans hate america but they eat big macs? while my own tastes in pop culture are perfectly in line with my politics, i think it's a little much to say europeans are hypocritical to protest the wto when they sent eminem to the top of the charts.
pps. thanks for the help the other day. one day i will stop trying to do clever things with my computer.