The real immigration problem...
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Oakman wrote:
Fortunately for you the problem is with the territories in Mexico that provide easy access to the U.S. 6,000 bodies found along the border in the last year; the Mayor of Juarez hiding out on this side of the border; the Police Chief of Juarez forced to resign by the drug lords who said they'd kill a cop every 48 hours until he did - he resigned after the first two. . .A lot of the army and federal police force would tell you, I think, that there was a war already being waged.
Yes. We are really ashamed of the situation in the north border (and I say this without political color. I say this as Mexican). Until a few years ago, we didn't have this kind of problem, because we have some kind of treuce (?) with the drug lords here. We let them work, they didn't mess with the people (not further than selling their drugs, that's it). But with the current administration, the president has declared the "war" to the drugs, no matter what it takes. Some factions of people in Mexico (specially the PRD) is using this a way of "punishment" to the president, because they felt they was "robbed" in the elections... but thats another story. (Sometimes a funny one :cool:) How I see the "war"? Well, I feel is the right thing to do (I feel really ashamed of the innocent deads, and I probably would be really upset if I lost a beloved one in this war). We don't want (with all due respect again) to become a Colombia-like country (part of the country IS a Colombia-like right now. I dont want this situation in the rest of the country, no matter where I live). Just to be clear, I asked you about the "civil war" because some of us see this as a "drugs war" and no "civil". (Yes... I know, in this case probably is a To-mei-to, To-ma-to thing)
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I understand that there is a sub-culture of "Americans" in Brazil ... descendants of some Southern whites (and some blacks) who migrated there after the Civil War. The article about them that I read many years ago lead one to believe that they'd far rather their children marry another "American," regardless of race, than to marry a "non-American" Brazilian (edit: the Wikipedia article disputes this). edit: here is the Wikipedia article[^] on these people Edit2: Amusingly enough, from the article it's clear that Brazilians of a century ago had no difficulty or problem with calling us "Americans." Which is to say, this modern whinging about us "hijacking" the word "America" is just more leftist stupidity.
modified on Monday, March 2, 2009 3:20 PM
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True enough, but the scope of what was meant by America or American has changed a good deal since Europeans first discovered the place. And before Vespucci, no one here used those terms... ;)
We are Americans (and we have been called that for most of the last 400 years). That Canadians of a certain mind-set (*) want to whinge about that is not our problem. That Canadians of a certain mind-set seem to want us to stop being Americans ... it sometime seems so that *they* can then claim the word ... is not our problem. (*) Typically, leftists of various stripes who define their cultural/national identity in opposition to that of Americans; it's rather sad and pathetic, really.