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What's wrong with us turning half-Hispanic? Hell, I'm a white male -- we've had our... thousand or so years; let someone else have their day. I'd be far more worried about the education level of the future generations than the racial make-up.


we've had our... thousand or so years; let someone else have their day.

I'm sure you formulated that opinion of an independent mind, and you're certainly entitled to it, but...can you imagine that it is not your place (or anybody's place) to advocate the ethnic cleansing of any group, even your own?


Nothing in his post came anywhere close to talking about 'ethnic cleansing'. He was only talking about letting some other group be the majority, and letting caucasians become a minority in the country.

Of course, that projection is for 90+ years from now, so if it happens at all, it won't be happening to most of us.


Nothing in his post came anywhere close to talking about 'ethnic cleansing'.

Umm, except the part that involved replacing one ethnicity with another, viz, ethnic cleansing.

I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but the census bureau projects the total population to be 405m in 2040 http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/files/natio...

And the nhw population to be half that at the time,

http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/files/natio...

...so, I'd say 30 years, but it's probably less than that because illegals generally avoid census workers, and a lot of people are counted as "white" when they and no one else typically do in practice.

Anyway, the actual replacement of one group with another is not an overnight thing. Rather, neighborhoods, then cities, then regions, then states, one by one by one are overrun. Only then, when reversal is impossible is the actual country gone.


Anyway, the actual replacement of one group with another is not an overnight thing. Rather, neighborhoods, then cities, then regions, then states, one by one by one are overrun. Only then, when reversal is impossible is the actual country gone.

What the hell are you talking about? Did I just step into some kind of apartheid racist agenda? "Only then, when reversal is impossible is the actual country gone." Who says the country is gone? First, I generally don't like to use terms like "overrun" when I speak about humans from different ethnicities moving into various geographical regions because I don't think of it as an "invasion." Secondly, the United States is not defined by its whiteness. Being white is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition to being an American. As I said in my parent post, I see no problem with the growing number of Hispanics in the population. I feel that it doesn't matter which ethnic group has a plurality or majority in the United States and it certainly doesn't make the country any less the United States.


Ethnic cleansing would, by definition, imply the killing of the group being replaced, rather than one group simply outgrowing the other.


Indeed.

http://www.answers.com/ethnic%20cleansing

I have a feeling that he was just using an inflammatory term in order to preclude rational discussion and win the argument.


Does intelligence have a genetic component though? And how big is that genetic component?




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