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Old 12-05-2007, 08:57 AM   #9
JohnnyFlame
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Originally Posted by tjinaz View Post
What does this mean for the existing anglo-french based traditions?

Not real sure what this means in the long term.

Funny thing is most of the new immigrants come from warmer climates.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7128172.stm
I don't think it will mean a whole lot in the longterm. People forget that the mass waves of Euro's that came here weren't moving from one nice situation to another. Tons of them came because they were persecuted where they were either for their religion or because of what ethnic group they belonged to. Many like my parents came soon after World War II and just wanted the heck out of a poor country. Not to mention that one of their favorite games as kids was to track shot down German fighters.

Guess what when they got here they were very much for letting people have their own religion, rule of law, tolerance for other cultures, very much in favor of making money over other issues. Plus they found plenty of people who had arrived escaping the same things.

Now you have hordes running from the same things. Wars and poverty and governments who are not tolerant of minorities or religion.

They will fit right in.
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