Immigrant Appreciation Thread

[Agathon]

Leo Strauss - philosopher (sorry agathon) and proto neocon

Don't you mean "pretentious mountebank"?

I've never heard of the Kaplan bloke, but I actually like pragmatists.


to George Szell. I have stacks of his records.

[Bereta_Eder]

never knew japher was a caligastia in disguise. there were signs of course.

[germanos]

Originally posted by Azazel

werner von braun - rocket guy

didn't you want to say

'nazi rocket guy' ?

[jack]He doesn't care. He did great for the USA, don't you get the point?
The fact he didn't immigrate doesn't matter either.[/jack]

Immigrants are, in general, beneficiary (sp?) to the country they move to.

[mrmitchell]

If it weren't for immigration, Kenyans and Chinese would win all the Olympic events

[Pekka]

Hey I might be an immigrant to the US or Canada in the next 10 years. You should appreciate me too with Caligastia.. I mean.. You can put me right up there with Einstein.... Supercitizen.. can you imagine, having a REAL supercitizen in your country? How great is that!

[mrmitchell]

But he'll be a Superfinnishcitizen

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Agathon
The only decent food in Britain was brought there by Asians.

Hogwash.

Don't get into an argument with me about good British food, Aggie- you'll lose.

However, in praise of the migrant genius:

James Joyce: resident of Trieste, Paris and Zurich (and of Dublin's fair city).

Salman Rushdie

Gertrude Stein

James Whistler

Henry James

John Singer Sargent

Edith Wharton

C.P. Cavafy

Marc Isambard Brunel

Guglielmo Marconi

William Siemens

Sigmund Freud

Ingrid Bergman

Piet Mondrian

Emma Goldman

Yul Brynner

Jean Louis Agassiz

Dr. Haing S. Ngor

Leo Baekeland

Pablo Picasso

Audrey Hepburn

and so on and so on...

http://www.multicultural.vic.gov.au/diversity.htm

[Bereta_Eder]

cavafy was born in alexandria, lived in england, france constantinople, egypt greece....

and that link you posted only says about where everyone came from.
that's not multiculturalism, certaintly not in a country that separates its citizens into spikes (or something) and wogs.

it is a village country, isn't it?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
"However, if you bother to live outside of Poly and even the internet you will see and feel this Xenophobia in many countries."

A dislike or disagreement with is not a phobia.

You dislike them based on skin colour.

That's not phobia, that's racism.

[mrmitchell]

UR--I do, however, believe the root of PA's problems are fear--of brown people being better off than himself, and of gays because he can't address his own sexuality.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


You dislike them based on skin colour.

That's not phobia, that's racism.

And yet homophobe is used to describe someone who dislikes another because of their homosexuality, not because they have a true medical condition WRT gays.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by paiktis22
cavafy was born in alexandria, lived in england, france constantinople, egypt greece....

and that link you posted only says about where everyone came from.
that's not multiculturalism, certaintly not in a country that separates its citizens into spikes (or something) and wogs.

it is a village country, isn't it?

Go bore someone else.

Your reference to spikes is inaccurate and a continent off.

The rest is the usual ignorant batrachian borborygmos.

Troll rating: 0.2/10

[Urban Ranger]

mrmitchell,

UR--I do, however, believe the root of PA's problems are fear--of brown people being better off than himself, and of gays because he can't address his own sexuality.

Sure, but I am not going to psychoanalyze him.


Verto,

And yet homophobe is used to describe someone who dislikes another because of their homosexuality, not because they have a true medical condition WRT gays.

Phobia is more of a fear than a dislike, though.

[Solly]

Phobia is more of a fear than a dislike, though.

Exactly. And see my sig. Wrong term, wrong accusation.

[:) Smiley]

So you hate rather than fear?