by Sandy » Mon Apr 17, 2017 2:50 pm
Beauty is in the mind of the beholder. Clarity depends on the way that an idea is expressed. You're obviously quite miffed about declining white birth rates, whining that the Latino population will outnumber whites at some point in then near future, and that we're "emulating" Europe by welcoming in large ethnic and religious minorities that are somehow counter to the social/cultural identity of "white America". Well, "white Christian America" is a myth that never existed. Native Americans were not easily assimilated, but of course were here long before white Europeans. African Americans were brought as slaves from the earliest days of colonization, and Latinos resulted from the influence of Spain as a major world power. America was never exclusively white, nor Christian.
Our culture is enriched and broadened by the presence of people from all over the world. Far more of them contribute to our society and culture than cause harm. For 16 years, I lived in Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston on the southwest side of the metro area. It was a suburb of mostly newer subdivisions, built since the 80's. In addition to a dozen Christian churches of various types, within about a five mile radius of my house you could find two Buddhist temples (one right across the street from a mosque), two mosques, a Hindu temple, a mar thoma Christian church, a synagogue, an Eastern Orthodox church that had Greek, Romanian and Serbian language services, a large African American SBC congregation, and at least two large Spanish speaking congregations. There were neighborhoods in the Alief area north of there where ethnic minorities clustered together, but in Sugar Land, you could walk down just about any street in any subdivision, and find a dozen different ethnicities or racial backgrounds in just a few blocks. For some reason, our particular little subdivision, three streets and a couple of cul-de-sacs, had a lot of Jewish families, but there were several Indian and Pakistani families, and our neighbors were Latino. No crime issues to speak of, and the high school football team was a rally point for the community. Soccer, of course, was huge, and our Christian school drew many of its students from that immediate area. That's the sort of thing that makes this country great. It's who we are. Oh, did I mention, most of these folks were American Citizens by choice?
"White Christian" America is an oxymoron.