Multiracial Americans Growing 3 Times Faster Than General Population

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  1. longknife

    longknife New Member

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    I think this is great news! It means we can sooner get away with this xxx-American PC crap and get down to just plain American. It clearly means that while liberal media and politicians are so wrapped up in racial tensions, young people are turning blind eyes to a person's genetic makeup and are selecting partners based on commonalities that count.

    Read more of the study @ http://www.ibtimes.com/pew-study-mu...ing-3-times-faster-general-population-1962062
     
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    I agree. My wife is from Thailand. Prior to taking her citizenship test she was taught that there are no hyphenated Americans. That regardless of where we come from we are all Americans. But that was when America was the melting pot of the world.

    Doing other research I ran across this:

    3. Intermarriage. The USA is seeing an unprecedented increase in intermarriage between the various racial and ethnic groups. In 2008, a record 14.6% of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. 9% of non-Hispanic whites who married in 2008 married either a non-white or Hispanic. Among all newlyweds in 2008, intermarried pairings were primarily white-Hispanic of any race (41%) as compared to white-Asian (15%), white-black (11%), and other combinations (33%). Other combinations consists of pairings between different minority groups, multi-racial people, and American Indians.[12] The children of such unions would not generally be classified as white Non-Hispanic (although note that one self-identifies their racial and/or ethnic category).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites
     
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    Even the most virulent white racist male....

    would love to try to make a baby with Sofa Vergara.

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    Intermarriage between different groups didn't help Yugoslavia survive. Ethno-nationalism is the strongest force in the world today. Why would America be any different?
     
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    No racial identity, no shared culture, nothing to rally behind. The perfect socialist drone.
     
  6. Albert Di Salvo

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    In order to be a "people" the folks residing in a place must have a reason to think of themselves as a "people." I call this a "unifying principle."

    The Chinese are unified by race, history and culture. Slavic Russians are unified by race, ethnicity, culture and history. The English have had a thousand years to grow into a "people." The Japanese have a pure ethnicity unifying them. I think they call it "kokutai." Muslims have the concept of the "ummah" which unifies them at least in theory.

    What is it that serves to make the residents of America a single people instead of a collection of tribes? Once it was culture and creed.

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1997-09-01/erosion-american-national-interests

    Culture no longer unifies Americans because assimilation has been replaced with multiculturalism and diversity. Multiculturalism elevates tribalism over a common national identity.

    Creed no longer provides a unifying principle for American national identity. Many of the residents of America no longer believe in the enlightenment ideal of Individual Liberty. Instead they believe in Paternalism which is antithetical to Individual Liberty.

    Those who support Paternalism can never be my people. To the extent they seek to replace Individual Liberty with Paternalism they are my direct enemies to be fought and resisted at every opportunity.

    The national identity that existed from the early 20th century until around 2001 has been shattered. People who believe in Individual Liberty have nothing in common with the advocates of Paternalism.

    What's even worse is the fact that the ideals of Individual Liberty and Paternalism now act as dividers based on race, ethnicity, and culture.

    This notion that being multi-racial will unify us is nonsense. Multi-racial people don't come together. They opt into one group or the other. My family is multi-racial. My observations are empirical.
     
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    Yogoslavia was too small to resist a strong external force.
     
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    That's absolutely true.

    I was in Yugoslavia in the 80's and given the history of the Balkan area, that was one of the questions I asked our tour guide about; how do all the various ethnic groups get along? He replied that everything is fine and peaceful. Everyone is neighbors, everyone intermarries....

    And a few years later they're killing each other. It's easy for diversity to be your strength when you live under a dictatorship and everyone is oppressed more or less. Remove that boot and the real feelings come out.
     
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    Meh...pass.
    Maybe I'm not white OR racist enough.

    Sophia Vergara - No makeup
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  10. longknife

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    It really broke my heart to see the disintegration of Yugoslavia. I briefly visited Belgrade in 1977 and was amazed at how so many different people could get along side-by-side. But, I also did not miss the heavily-armed security forces patrolling everywhere.

    Some Austrian friends of mine absolutely loved Bled. Not only for its great golf course but the outstanding hotels with great wine and cuisine.
     
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    Well diversity does seem to require heavily-armed security forces. That seems to go hand in hand.
     
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    best to rally around common ideology and common goals.
     
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    Except people disagree on those things wildly.
     
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    yes, there are different ideologies and goals.

    unity and togetherness should be based on common goals, common ideas, not arbitrary things like skin color.
     
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    Societies should be based on common things that can't change after a 2 minute lecture from some radical professor. Political goals can change very rapidly, and if your whole society is based on these things, it will go into turmoil very quickly.
     
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    arbitrary things like skin color, is a poor reason to unite with people.

    a more intelligent reason to unite, is common goals, common beliefs.
     
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    Race and culture are a lot more resistant to change than, say, a position on gay marriage (which as the Obama Presidency has shown, can change almost instantly). That is why the left has discovered that the only way to destroy race and culture is by flooding a society with other races and other cultures. I'd rather have a society built on a strong foundation of rock instead of shifting sands.
     
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    and have no influence on what we believe, what we think, what our goals are, our interests, etc.

    its like uniting only with people who are left handed or right handed.

    its arbitrary and irrelevent to what's truly important in a society.

    as a white person, do you get along better with a white drug fiend/criminal or a black office worker?
     
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    Sure they do. If a culture as a whole believes eating beef is wrong, do you think some radical professor can give a lecture and convince a room full of people that eating beef is OK? He might convince a few, but overall, the culture is going to resist that attempt to change it. It would take a long time.

    Probably not, but overall I would get along better with white people as a group than black people. That's generally true with all groups. Nobody ever said there are no exceptions.
     
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    What common goals and beliefs does a butcher share with beef cattle?
     
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    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    pardon?
     
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    One of the strongest.

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    How do you explain Indonesia?
     
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    National identity can still survive in a multicultural society. It all depends on how the system is set up.
     
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    except those rich buggers, need to kill them and take all their stuff
     
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    You're right. I forgot about Islam.



    Indonesia is a Buhmiputra nation that discriminates, and sometimes persecutes, Chinese residents. The Buhmiputra identity is based on Austronesian origin and Muslim faith.

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    Do you have any examples currently in existence?
     

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