Speaker to Animals wrote:nmoore63 wrote:Its also weird how the fact that they are Mexican trumps the fact that they are Catholic.
I, personally, hold someone ideology against them far more than I do skin color.
I don't know how it works where you live, but where I live, my parish has a Spanish demographic that is as large as the white demographic. They go to their own masses. They keep to themselves. They build their own Mexican communities too. There's a whole strip of just Mexican stores and Mexican culture. No Anglos allowed.
This is colonization. I like Mexicans just fine. I don't like being colonized, though.
Lived mostly in the SW. Occasionally venture into Mexican neighborhoods/shops. Subbed at schools that were 95% Latino. I've never really felt unwelcome. In fact, I'm trying to think of a story some other white has told me of getting any significant hostility from Mexicans and nothing is coming to mind. Obviously, it happens, but it just doesn't seem particularly common.
We just went to one of those Mexican ice cream shops. Everyone was cool. If anything, I think they liked seeing non-Mexicans give it a try.
Hell, even when I was robbed by the police in Mexico, they were pretty nice about it.
I've also gone through periods where I associated with more Asians than whites, with similar results.
To Nick's point. I can see major problems with importing millions of Islamic fundamentalists to Europe. But other people who are more or less the same apart from color and who chose to come to the country seem to fit in pretty well.
What differences exist, I sometimes favor the outsiders. It's almost as if Mexicans are conspiring to win me over. Sarcastic as hell, love boxing, good cheap food open 24 hours, and also very un-P.C. for the most part. As I grow older and more socially conservative in some ways, I envy their extensive and strong family networks.
Similar with Asians. One reason they succeed is that they pool resources as a family. They help each other buy houses and stuff like that. I remember when I had money problems a few years ago, working mostly with Asians, none of them could believe that my family didn't help me out. One woman said something that really stuck in my mind, "I know that with you, it's 'what's yours is yours and what's mine is mine' but... that's crazy. I don't understand it." A Korean co-worker wound up renting a room from me for a month just to put money in my pocket and arranged for his brother to buy my big screen. One of the kindest things anybody has ever done for me.
Asians, especially from FOB's are the most un-P.C. people on earth.
Both groups, arguably, have a moral foundation we lack. I, predictably, prefer the Buddhists. Thai people are freaks of niceness. Though I realize if you go over there, there is plenty of horrible stuff going on. But many have internalized the teachings and you see them deal with something like an abusive customer and be totally unaffected. You ask them why. "He is the one with a problem. Why should it bother me?"
Obviously, I can also find faults with their cultures. I also think there need to be limits to immigration and saw first hand that the sheer volume of illegal immigration overwhelmed my community and strained resources for everyone but the rich. But I got no problem with the people.
I guess if Finland wants to remain Finnish, that's fine. But turning Montana into honkeystan has no appeal to me.
I guess if we set up a little territory for each race, it might be a magnet for people who blame others for their problems. That could be a plus.