“Many Americans have become enamored of the European approach to immigration — perhaps without realizing it,” commentator Fareed Zakaria wrote in an op-ed piece in The Washington Post. “Guest workers, penalties, sanctions and deportation are all a part of Europe’s mode of dealing with immigrants.” But Zakaria has a warning: “The results of this approach have been on display recently in France, where rioting migrant youths again burned cars last week. Across Europe one sees disaffected, alienated immigrants, ripe for radicalism. The immigrant communities deserve their fair share of blame for this, but there’s a cycle at work. European societies exclude the immigrants, who become alienated and reject their societies.”
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Immigrants exclude themselves by failing to assimilate into the society for which they have migrated. For most first-generation immigrants, an identity crisis normally takes place because when they emigrate to a foreign country they still have all the traditions from their native countries. They then seek to perpetuate their traditions through their children. This is why immigrants group together to make little Italy’s, Chinatowns, et cetera. However, second generation and after become more and more immune to their traditionalist identity of their parent’s native country and starts adopting the cultural traditions, language, and maneurisms of their host country. (This is why, children of immigrants are always obsessed with being more and more American, Western etc.)
Good points CruX. I think it is OK to maintain a certain amount of ‘prior’ identity buy NOT to the extent of not accepting one’s ‘new’ identity. Celebrate old holidays, traditions, etc but learn English and also new traditions. In fact, invite your neighbors to such celebrations to build bridges rather than walls.
Another problem I think with a “GastArbeiten” program is what to do if the jobs evaporate. Then you have migrants without money with no real way to go home.
Well, I speak from experience as I am a second-generation son of an immigrant.
I agree. I am many-generation on my father’s side and Native on my mother’s. I ocunt among my friends everything from new immigrant, 2nd-generation, and on up. If we celebrate Cinco de Mayo and St. Patricks Day together (all speaking English and eating all sorts of wild food) then we can get to know each other. In doing so we all become AMERICANS – whatever our background or tenure.
But, but…I thought everything the French did was SO much smarter and more sophisticated and nuanced than us. Guess not!!
Parisians are the most hated people in France. At least, that’s what the tour guide told me.
Apparently, unless the illegal mexicans have broken our laws for at least two years, they haven’t earned the right of citizenship!
Blacks and rabs do not have the capacity to contribute, in a postive manner to European Civilisation! We will, in a few short years see the END of democracy, capitalism, globalism, multiracialism and I say good riddance. It will be glorious!
The Free Congress CommentaryThe Self-Proclaimed OtherBy William S. Lind
April 4, 2006
The ongoing demonstrations and riots against a change in French labor laws are as normal for France as snails for dinner. Most Frenchmen agree that France is, and should remain, a mercantilist rather than a capitalist country. Every so often, a French government unwisely ignores this consensus and attempts to fire Monsieur Colbert from his permanent post as Minister of Economics. French workers take to the streets in protest, and after huffing and puffing for a while, the government gives in and restores Colbert to his honored post. It is one of the rites of spring, and no cause for genuine alarm.
But this year is different. A new, Fourth Generation presence has manifested itself. Roving gangs of young Islamics, many of them black, have joined the festivities. They have come not to march shoulder-to-shoulder with French students and workers, demonstrating the Left’s fraternité, but to assault, beat, kick and rob them. The Left, it seems, has a problem.
The European cultural Left, which includes most of the nominal European Right, has for decades proclaimed the desirability of “multiculturalism.” Religion, culture, race, those basic ingredients of human history, were no longer to matter. Beneath such superstructures, all people were to be seen as the same, wanting material things, sharing warm feelings toward one another, united by class consciousness far more than they could ever be divided by mere accidents of birth. “Diversity” would unite the best from all cultures, while the worst would magically vanish.
In this culturally Marxist world view, the most heinous of sins was to suggest that someone else was “the Other.” That was racism, classism, fascism, and every other ism under the sun. Anyone who dared view another religion, culture or race as in any way unwelcome or even problematic was supposed to look in the mirror and see “another Hitler.”
In the case of the young Moslems who are attacking French demonstrators, however, it is not Le Pen and his followers who are labeling them “the Other.” They are proclaiming themselves “the Other,” and they are doing so forcefully. Their Other, in turn, is not the Right, but simply Frenchmen. Any man, woman or child of French ancestry is a target, an enemy, regardless of how impeccable his Leftist credentials. European distinctions of Left and Right mean nothing to this self-proclaimed Other. What matters to these products of multiculturalist immigration policies is exactly the realities multiculturalism was supposed to abolish, the ancient identities of religion, culture and race. The New sought to replace the Old, but the Old is re-emerging to displace the New.
The root issue, as usual in the Fourth Generation, is primary loyalty. Most French workers and students, however Leftist their politics, are Frenchmen first. The Moslem hooligans – or should we say warriors? – attacking them will never give their primary loyalty to France. They are “the Other” by choice and by pride, not by economic or any other circumstances. No school, no housing project, no job program will take their loyalty away from the Other. As the Other, and as young men, they will look not for economic opportunities but for opportunities to fight.
The French Left is now painfully discovering that “diversity” is a synonym for taking a swim in the shark tank. For those of us who are cultural conservatives, the situation has its amusing aspects. We did tell them so, over and over again. They stopped their ears and yelled “ism! ism! ism!” back at us. Now, they are finding it is easier to block their ears than to keep themselves from being kicked in the streets of Paris by the very people they welcomed to France.
Regrettably, the colossal mess created by “multiculturalism” affects all Europeans and Americans, Right as well as Left. I will say again what I have said before: in a Fourth Generation world, invasion by immigrants who do not acculturate is more dangerous than invasion by the army of a foreign state. In America, a similar invading army took to our streets last week, demonstrating against any attempt to stem the invasion. Few of the flags they carried were American.
What must occur before the rest of us get the message?http://www.fcfnewsondemand.org/
Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!!
Spain reached its greatest glory under Moorish governance. It reached its lowest nadir under the Fascist Franco dictatorship.
BH,
Spain under Isabella reached its’ freatest glory and that was AFTER the filthy Moors were expelled. As for Franco, he saved Spain from the horrors of jew-bolshevism. My great uncle Jorge was a Catholic priest who was tortured to death, horribly, by the same jew-reds that Franco defeated!
Viva la Raza Blanco!!
http://alipac.us/article1137.html
nuff said