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White birth in USA less than 50% - what does it mean to you
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Squire



Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A multicultural society is a nice idea, but different races aren't always living in harmony together. Call me a bigot but I'd hate to be a marginalised minority in my own country. I've heard enough about what it's like to be the racial minority and I'd prefer if that wasn't me
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Lunar Groove Gardener



Joined: 05 Jan 2005
Location: 1987 Subaru

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would seem that China will have a majority share in all things American by the time Latin congressional representatives have the majority.

So, they'll likely argue in Spanish about how to appease the Chinese.

A women's party will emerge and influence a variety of significant issues.

Specific religions will vote in blocks and have super-lobbies.

Children will have computers implanted at birth.

People will live so long that the system of money will become inadequate as a general system and so become extinct.

Air quality in larger cities will very rapidly deteriorate to the point of causing severe illness in the majority of those that inhabit them.

Bees will have disappeared, and normal, natural agricultural patterns will need to be replaced by artificial foods and manufactured methods of food production.

Internet porn will become obsolete as the implanted computer chips in each individual will provide a visual-electrical stimulus specifically designed to shake the Jones out of the precipitous minions of present day pay per peek patrons.

People will be given full, uploaded knowledge at birth. Schooling will not be required, nor will learning serve any useful purpose. Computers will be utilized to make the human mind function at its peak without any internal effort.

Candy will taste like pennies soaked in formaldehyde.

Happiness will come from a variety of readily available options easily accessed and at no cost.

The sun will sink like a blood red coin into the boiling sea and in the successive darkness, multi-lungual, polytheist cockroach superstars will emerge and in their limitless free time, develop a startlingly intoxicating form of music akin to the real folk blues, but played with much smaller instruments and only audible to humans through the use of a tungsten filament implanted in the ear canal.

These filaments will be highly sought, and roach virtuosos will attain the status of secular deities.

People will throw out all their music from the current era, realizing that this was indeed a precipitant to the disappearance of the sun.

Ultimately, someone will turn the lights back on, but we'll never agree who, and eventually human endeavor will drift back to trying to grow enough food to feed our communities, playing gourds and zithers, and emulating the lugubrious languor of the cries of plankton in the fish depleted bodies of water that will require great efforts to provide potable sustenance.

A lot of people will still think that Spanish is cool as hell, and not that tough to learn, if you already have a good handle on English.

Canned beer will cease to exist.

LGG
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visitorq



Joined: 11 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unposter wrote:
It doesn't mean anything to me.

But, I do worry about negative, hateful reactions from whites as they lose thier democratic majority. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a rise in anti-government/anti-democratic white people who fear losing their grip on government. We could see more shrinking into smaller, homogenus communities and I am going to guess this will be the beginning of a state's rights movement and more racial homogeneity within states.

It certainly doesn't have to get ugly - diversity has its advantages - but the cynic in me says it will. It could be very ugly.

I agree, but I'm actually less inclined to think the hateful reactions will come from whites than from other groups. As far as I can see most whites are guilt-ridden and afraid saying anything politically incorrect. But black power and other supremacist groups like "La Raza" have no qualms openly bashing white people. It's pretty disconcerting to see.

Ultimately I think race is pretty irrelevant and I think most people realize it, but it's definitely a powerful force for Balkanization and divide and conquer. Plenty of opportunists will be ready and waiting to take advantage of it on all sides.
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Zulethe



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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where I live in the southwest it seems that the population is about 80% Hispanic - boring...I like variety and I never thought I'd say this but it seems that Korea is actually more diversified than were I live.
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Unposter



Joined: 04 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LGG,

Nice work...have you read a lot of Huxley by chance?
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Unposter



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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2012 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Visitorq,

You make a good point. No doubt there will be non-white groups that will seek out their advantages...

And, to the guy who doesn't want to live as a minority, always remember that feeling you had when you wrote that. It is an important feeling. Others feel it too, many of them "minorities."
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Paddycakes



Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Turd Ferguson wrote:
The U.S. is a joke plain and simple, in fact most Western countries are, but the U.S. is the poster boy. The fattest and stupidest "1st world" country, with more people in jail than China (with 5 times the population, and so call Communist) and they call it the land of the free. What a joke, more restrictions, cameras, and don't forget the spy drones, than anywhere on the planet (cept England) Now some Yanks will say "I like that; it's for our safety." Just further evidence of the Joke the U.S. has become, the home of the brave??? Cowards trade secuity for their freedom, and get neither. If George Washington heard you say that he'd kick your ass. In almost every way the U.S. is a joke but so many people think it's the best country in the world. Ya for drugs (precription and street) debt, immorality, divorce, porn, abortions, obesity. The American dream... Like Carlin said, you gotta be asleep to believe it.


Welcome to the forum, Travis Bickle!
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PatrickGHBusan



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 3:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It means squat to me as a Canadian and would also eman squat to me was this birth trend the same in Canada. It is just social and demographical change.
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Dodge7



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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If this means I can now get free rides into Universities solely because of my white skin color then heck ya I'm for it. If that means I can get a job over more qualified black and Mexican because I'm white, then YES!
But something tells me those things still won't be afforded to me even after the racial shift. =(
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littlelisa



Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Squire wrote:
A multicultural society is a nice idea, but different races aren't always living in harmony together. Call me a bigot but I'd hate to be a marginalised minority in my own country. I've heard enough about what it's like to be the racial minority and I'd prefer if that wasn't me


As opposed to others who are a marginalized minority in their own country now? Ideally the minorities wouldn't be marginalized and it wouldn't be such a big issue whether you were in the majority or the minority. We're not there yet, but I think we keep getting closer... slowly, maybe, but still.
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12ax7



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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dodge7 wrote:
If this means I can now get free rides into Universities solely because of my white skin color then heck ya I'm for it. If that means I can get a job over more qualified black and Mexican because I'm white, then YES!
But something tells me those things still won't be afforded to me even after the racial shift. =(


Pray tell what you do for a living and what your credentials are.
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Dodge7



Joined: 21 Oct 2011

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

12ax7 wrote:
Dodge7 wrote:
If this means I can now get free rides into Universities solely because of my white skin color then heck ya I'm for it. If that means I can get a job over more qualified black and Mexican because I'm white, then YES!
But something tells me those things still won't be afforded to me even after the racial shift. =(


Pray tell what you do for a living and what your credentials are.

Certified Middle School Teacher in English and History. You?
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dodge7 wrote:
12ax7 wrote:
Dodge7 wrote:
If this means I can now get free rides into Universities solely because of my white skin color then heck ya I'm for it. If that means I can get a job over more qualified black and Mexican because I'm white, then YES!
But something tells me those things still won't be afforded to me even after the racial shift. =(


Pray tell what you do for a living and what your credentials are.

Certified Middle School Teacher in English and History. You?


Let's hope you never teach about the causes of the Iraq War.
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PatrickGHBusan



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

northway wrote:
Dodge7 wrote:
12ax7 wrote:
Dodge7 wrote:
If this means I can now get free rides into Universities solely because of my white skin color then heck ya I'm for it. If that means I can get a job over more qualified black and Mexican because I'm white, then YES!
But something tells me those things still won't be afforded to me even after the racial shift. =(


Pray tell what you do for a living and what your credentials are.

Certified Middle School Teacher in English and History. You?


Let's hope you never teach about the causes of the Iraq War.


+1!

Dodge that was some pretty crass ignorance you displayed there in that post of yours...sorry.
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Dodge7



Joined: 21 Oct 2011

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You mad? It was the reason given for going into Iraq, why should I not believe it? Now why we stayed so long is another question.
In your eyes Obama can do no wrong, am I right?

And Patrick, another NON-American, are you telling me minorities don't get free scholarships to boost minority enrollment is colleges? And are you telling me the story in New Haven didn't happen when black fireman got a promotion over other white firemen who actually scored better on their test JUST because their skin color was darker?
Well, the white firemen sued the city and won, so let's see you justify otherwise.


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