RUN to the Hills! White Americans to become a minority!

[MarkG]

Originally posted by DanS
This is news?

apparently the previous estimation was for 2050

i guess the multiplication rate of hispanics has increased

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Az
You seem to post crap faux-alarmist threads that are complete copy-pastes of news articles.

Btw, are the expected responses, a "worried/paranoid" response by WASPs and right-wingers, and glee by left-wingers?

because this basically reads "no true American" to me.

How much thought have you given to this troll, really?

lets assume i was trolling wasp right-wingers or something (which i wasnt, no decent news-copy thread should have the exact same title as the news item)

why are YOU responding so negatively?

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by MarkG
apparently the previous estimation was for 2050

i guess the multiplication rate of hispanics has increased

Is this a surprise? Between illegal entry and family sizes averaging, what, 12?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Excellent...

[MarkG]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Is this a surprise? Between illegal entry and family sizes averaging, what, 12?

yes, if you're a european and dont closely follow US census data

are you serious about 12??

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Arrian
America is about an idea (or rather a collection of them), not a people.

This worries me not at all.

-Arrian

The whole thing about America being an idea is something we have cooked up to get around the fact that we have absolutely nothing else that really binds us together. All the traditional things that bind a nation together has been slowly eroded away and as we become more diverse and grow this whole idea theory will be sorely tested. Is the idea strong enough? I honestly don't know that it is. Perhaps in this day and age humans have come far enough to be binded only by an idea but the verdict is far from in.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The only "traditional thing" that bound the nation together was the collective idea. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The idea that other traditional things tied Americans together is a fallacy.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Sprayber
All the traditional things that bind a nation together has been slowly eroded away

when exactly was the US a traditional nation?

[Dinner]

What they're not telling you is that many Hispanics are in fact white or how birth rates may change over the next 34 years.

[MarkG]

do you mean that in 30 years most hispanics will be like current whites or something?

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Sprayber


The whole thing about America being an idea is something we have cooked up to get around the fact that we have absolutely nothing else that really binds us together. All the traditional things that bind a nation together has been slowly eroded away and as we become more diverse and grow this whole idea theory will be sorely tested. Is the idea strong enough? I honestly don't know that it is. Perhaps in this day and age humans have come far enough to be binded only by an idea but the verdict is far from in.

The idea thing was there from the beginning. If it fails, the nation fails, but IMO that's always been true.

Might it? Sure. It came very, very close once already.

-Arrian

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by MarkG


are you serious about 12??

I certainly am serious.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not mentioned in the article, but this also means the US will be a Catholic-majority nation soon.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
The only "traditional thing" that bound the nation together was the collective idea. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The idea that other traditional things tied Americans together is a fallacy.

It just magically worked out then that the US shared a common language/culture. Why didn't the Soviet's collective idea hold them together?

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Slaughtergaard
Do people still care about skin color? "OHMGZ, he's black, he's evil and eats children!" Ridiculous coming from a country like the USA. They should be a example. We're all the same things, people. Hispanics, Brazilians, Blacks, Europeian Whites... all the same thing. Just with diferent flavors.

It would be ridiculous coming from americans but neither the original article nor any of the alarmist comments were by Americans.