Ethnicity before everything and anything
"...as a proud American of Mexican Ancestry (Chicano) I feel it is my obligation to show all this point of view. A point of view of comprehension towards both sides."
Ahhhhh..... such a common attitude. An attitude I have not witnessed among immigrants from places other than below our southern border. An attitude I see so often, even among American citizens whose roots can be traced to the south one, two, three, and even more generations ago.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and mingled with folks from around the world. Did the Koreans, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Ukranians, Russians, Latvians, Portugese, and a multitude of others hold that "ethnic loyalty" and place it before loyalty to law, America and its general generic culture? Nope....not that I EVER saw or heard or read.
The folks from the south ARE different. Ethnicity before everything and anything seems to be the norm for many of those folks. Not all, though. BUT.....enough so that the possibility of assimilation is slight, especially at the numbers legal and illegal entrants are entering at.......millions upon millions of them.
Thus, to preserve our own unique culture we must defend ourselves.
For several years in other places on the Web the unique attitude of the folks from the south has been discussed and debated at great length. Why that strong ethnic identity that so often supercedes loyalty to anything other than that ethnicity?
One sage, a student of history, proclaimed there is a lengthy history of friction between Spain, Portugal and other predominant Catholic countries and Protestant England and, to a lesser extent, other northwestern Protestant countries. Remember the Spanish Armada? The intent was to invade and conquer England, to force the populace to convert to Catholicism.
Over the centuries there were repeated wars between the Spanish and England and, eventually, Spain and the USA and then between Mexico and the USA. Differences in culture and religion played a part in the animosity of the past and apparently continues to this day.
Other suggestions were bandied about but no one conclusive theory was ever agreed upon.
Whatever the root cause, listen, read, observe the actions and inactions of many of the invaders and those here legally that support them. A constant stream of "us versus them" (Americans not supporting the invasion are the "them") is readily apparent.
Back in the latter part of the 1970s I read a book, a doctoral thesis by a student from...... hmmmm, was it University of California Berkeley? Whatever..... the lengthy work covered the attitudes and mind-sets of newly-arrived and recent entrants, both legal and illegal, into the USA from Mexico.
While reading it I noticed how some of the conclusions the writer reached were verified by my own experiences. The "entrants" tended to be clannish, distrustful of government. Understandable due to the racist elitist government of Mexico presided over by Euro-Spaniards who viewed mestizos as below the Euro-Spaniard's status and the AmerIndians as a little less than human.
The mistrust of law enforcement, at all levels, from the street cop to the court house, was explained by the corruption in Mexico. The mistrust of the backwards legal system in Mexico is understandable to those who study it. That mistrust followed the entrants. Just one of many differences between the entrants and the general attitude of the Norte de Americanos that helps to prevent assimilation.
Cultural values were written about; one being the way Mexican females are subjugated by males, often viewed as property. The "cult of machismo" was also referenced along with many other differences between the bearers of the entering culture from the south (the "poor" one of Mexico since Mexico's elites tend to stay in Mexico) and the attitudes of the non-Latino non-Hispanic non-southernAmerIndian general generic culture of the USA.
Reading that work I knew that the friction I saw between the entrants and Americans not possessing that culture was inevitable. It also explains to me the constant hostility I see towards my people, my country, my culture.
Yet, I still am unable to adequately explain to my satisfaction the intense unlogical ethnic loyalty that prevents so many entrants from becoming part of the first-world. It's almost as if the entrants revel in their ignorance!!!! Oh, yes, the thesis did mention the very high drop-out rates from school for the entrants, especially among the males.
One conclusion I have reached is that one can not argue, debate, engage in logical discussion with anyone who has the mind-set of "my ethnicity before anything." The non-logic used by the entrants/invaders is emotionally based and rooted in what can be considered a backwards culture...... based upon subjective opinion and omitting the warm fuzzy politically correct mantra that all cultures are equal and beautiful. To briefly support the prior statement I need only point towards which country/culture has invented the most goods that have increased the health and happines of humanity.
Since arguing with the "ethnicity uber alles" mob is futile, I only respond to their quarrelsome emotion-laden illogical outbursts when I happen to be in the mood and typically do so in a manner I find comical. Perhaps I shouldn't make fun of lesser untrained minds but the buffoons usually come to me and not me to them.
So, try to not become upset when the uneducated ill-trained, illogical, emotion-laden pro-invasion idjits come prancing in and try to compete mano-y-mano with their intellectual superiors. Try to be kind for their intellectual capacity is greatly hindered by their cultural upbringing and bizarre adherence to their "ethnicity before anything" mind-set.
Or....... jump all over the blithering idiots and have a swell time berating the mental midgits whose attention span is akin to a well-trained cockatiel who can mimic human speech and perform a few basic tricks.
You betcha'!!!!!
