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What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

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Underhanded disturbing immigrant
  01/19/18
Peace Corps is two years. Did she quit or get fired to comp...
buff motley field half-breed
  01/19/18
probably quit. I don't think there's any penalty for quittin...
Cracking zombie-like useless brakes
  01/19/18
Wrong. Deserters can be Corps Martialed.
buff motley field half-breed
  01/19/18
PREACH
magenta garrison place of business
  01/19/18
this was an awfully long screed for her to air out her shame...
Violet histrionic coffee pot
  01/19/18
There's also a lot of dread in that boomer's mind because sh...
magenta garrison place of business
  01/19/18
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concupiscible crimson theater stage
  01/19/18
864023487597821354238
Silver insecure location
  01/19/18
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painfully honest stage
  01/19/18
So not exactly a hole, more of a dustbowl of shit?
Odious Ceo
  01/19/18
sort of microscopic dust granules of shit?
carnelian vivacious institution hairy legs
  01/19/18
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laughsome incel
  01/22/18
NIGGERS ARE WORTHLESS! news at 11
Elite marvelous sweet tailpipe range
  01/19/18
To libs, it is.
concupiscible crimson theater stage
  01/19/18
sounds like the white sections. the author never explicit st...
Henna Razzle-dazzle Kitchen Skinny Woman
  01/19/18
she said rural, which means no whites
mischievous stage party of the first part
  01/22/18
should be read aloud on the evening news, every network, eve...
scarlet fantasy-prone theatre juggernaut
  01/19/18
>> If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd ...
shimmering curious point
  01/19/18
right. this is why slezkine says that agricultural societies...
garnet electric selfie indian lodge
  01/19/18
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shimmering curious point
  01/22/18
Slezkine characterizes the Jews (alongside other groups such...
crusty poppy people who are hurt stead
  01/22/18
you know, I like it, it's a neat theory, but it doesn't real...
Silver insecure location
  01/22/18
slezkine has numerous examples of service nomad minorities w...
garnet electric selfie indian lodge
  01/22/18
fine, will check out. i suppose what gets my craw about s...
Silver insecure location
  01/22/18
thanks for lecturing me on horticulturalism vs farming bro. ...
garnet electric selfie indian lodge
  01/22/18
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Underhanded disturbing immigrant
  01/19/18
180. is the author a jewess? https://www.amazon.com/Karin...
slate razzle hospital
  01/19/18
libs?
Startling principal's office headpube
  01/19/18
From the tone, you can tell she was expecting a BBC Safari, ...
buff motley field half-breed
  01/19/18
fucking nigger apes
harsh bright area reading party
  01/19/18
Shithole
wild beady-eyed dog poop
  01/22/18
A shocking depth of insight from a typical America. I think ...
galvanic weed whacker orchestra pit
  01/22/18
...
Startling principal's office headpube
  01/22/18
What's interesting to me is that, per my poast above, it alm...
shimmering curious point
  01/22/18
coming from a city where there are a fuckload of ethnic whit...
Startling principal's office headpube
  01/22/18
i would agree. i also think there is a natural tendency t...
shimmering curious point
  01/22/18
yeah same for me on my mom's side but my dad's side is mu...
Startling principal's office headpube
  01/22/18
yeah i'm the same but the opposite. my mom's side is more re...
shimmering curious point
  01/22/18
prestige. branding. it's almost as if the mutt children of ...
Silver insecure location
  01/22/18
odd case
talented kitty
  01/22/18
180 read
exhilarant bat-shit-crazy property jewess
  01/22/18


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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:41 PM
Author: Underhanded disturbing immigrant

What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, "a fecalized environment."

In plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism.

Last time I was in Paris, I saw a beautiful African woman in a grand boubou have her child defecate on the sidewalk next to Notre Dame Cathedral. The French police officer, ten steps from her, turned his head not to see.

I have seen. I am not turning my head and pretending unpleasant things are not true.

Senegal was not a hellhole. Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms. But they are not our terms. The excrement is the least of it. Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible.

As a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal. In fact, I was euphoric. I quickly made friends and had an adopted family. I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man. People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts.

The longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that the Senegalese are not the same as us. The truths we hold to be self-evident are not evident to the Senegalese. How could they be? Their reality is totally different. You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms.

Take something as basic as family. Family was a few hundred people, extending out to second and third cousins. All the men in one generation were called "father." Senegalese are Muslim, with up to four wives. Girls had their clitorises cut off at puberty. (I witnessed this, at what I thought was going to be a nice coming-of-age ceremony, like a bat mitzvah or confirmation.) Sex, I was told, did not include kissing. Love and friendship in marriage were Western ideas. Fidelity was not a thing. Married women would have sex for a few cents to have cash for the market.

What I did witness every day was that women were worked half to death. Wives raised the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded grain with heavy hand-held pestles, lived in their own huts, and had conjugal visits from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives. Their husbands lazed in the shade of the trees.

Yet family was crucial to people there in a way Americans cannot comprehend.

The Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown. The value system was the exact opposite. You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to your own relatives. There are some Westernized Africans who try to rebel against the system. They fail.

We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of Africa. The kleptocracy extends through the whole society. My town had a medical clinic donated by international agencies. The medicine was stolen by the medical workers and sold to the local store. If you were sick and didn't have money, drop dead. That was normal.

So here in the States, when we discovered that my 98-year-old father's Muslim health aide from Nigeria had stolen his clothes and wasn't bathing him, I wasn't surprised. It was familiar.

In Senegal, corruption ruled, from top to bottom. Go to the post office, and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp. After paying the bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown out. That was normal.

One of my most vivid memories was from the clinic. One day, as the wait grew hotter in the 110-degree heat, an old woman two feet from the medical aides – who were chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working – collapsed to the ground. They turned their heads so as not to see her and kept talking. She lay there in the dirt. Callousness to the sick was normal.

Americans think it is a universal human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's not. It seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian culture.

We think the Protestant work ethic is universal. It's not. My town was full of young men doing nothing. They were waiting for a government job. There was no private enterprise. Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. It is also incompatible with Senegalese insistence on taking care of relatives.

All the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians. If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd go to another country. The reason? Your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes. End of your business. You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives. The result: Everyone has nothing.

The more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work. A job is something given to you by a relative. It provides the place where you steal everything to give back to your family.

I couldn't wait to get home. So why would I want to bring Africa here? Non-Westerners do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa.

For the rest of my life, I enjoyed the greatest gift of the Peace Corps: I love and treasure America more than ever. I take seriously my responsibility to defend our culture and our country and pass on the American heritage to the next generation.

African problems are made worse by our aid efforts. Senegal is full of smart, capable people. They will eventually solve their own country's problems. They will do it on their terms, not ours. The solution is not to bring Africans here.

We are lectured by Democrats that we must privilege third-world immigration by the hundred million with chain migration. They tell us we must end America as a white, Western, Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation – to prove we are not racist. I don't need to prove a thing. Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent Western achievements, and hate America. They want to destroy America as we know it.

As President Trump asked, why would we do that?

We have the right to choose what kind of country to live in. I was happy to donate a year of my life as a young woman to help the poor Senegalese. I am not willing to donate my country.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35189925)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:44 PM
Author: buff motley field half-breed

Peace Corps is two years. Did she quit or get fired to complete it in one?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35189953)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:54 PM
Author: Cracking zombie-like useless brakes

probably quit. I don't think there's any penalty for quitting the peace corps early.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190028)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: buff motley field half-breed

Wrong. Deserters can be Corps Martialed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192393)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:44 PM
Author: magenta garrison place of business

PREACH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35189963)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:46 PM
Author: Violet histrionic coffee pot

this was an awfully long screed for her to air out her shame and guilt over mistreating her dying father so that she could live a certain kind of chill boomer redpill life

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35189979)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:49 PM
Author: magenta garrison place of business

There's also a lot of dread in that boomer's mind because she knows that could be her end as well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35189997)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:49 PM
Author: concupiscible crimson theater stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35189994)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:50 PM
Author: Silver insecure location

864023487597821354238

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190001)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 1:51 PM
Author: painfully honest stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190005)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 2:11 PM
Author: Odious Ceo

So not exactly a hole, more of a dustbowl of shit?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190136)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: carnelian vivacious institution hairy legs

sort of microscopic dust granules of shit?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190331)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: laughsome incel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208785)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 2:33 PM
Author: Elite marvelous sweet tailpipe range

NIGGERS ARE WORTHLESS! news at 11

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190334)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 7:05 PM
Author: concupiscible crimson theater stage

To libs, it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192395)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 2:52 PM
Author: Henna Razzle-dazzle Kitchen Skinny Woman

sounds like the white sections. the author never explicit stated what neighborhood she was in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190483)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: mischievous stage party of the first part

she said rural, which means no whites



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35211023)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 2:57 PM
Author: scarlet fantasy-prone theatre juggernaut

should be read aloud on the evening news, every network, every night for a week straight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190519)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 2:57 PM
Author: shimmering curious point

>> If a Senegalese wanted to run a little store, he'd go to another country. The reason? Your friends and relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes. End of your business. You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to relatives. The result: Everyone has nothing. <<

Whoa, this 100% reads like what happens to every wealthy NBA star and rapper who ends up blowing money taking care of their "crew" from back home. Holy shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35190521)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 7:04 PM
Author: garnet electric selfie indian lodge

right. this is why slezkine says that agricultural societies need "service nomads", there need to be people who do antisocial, unpleasant stuff like collect debts, perform surgery, etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192382)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:00 AM
Author: shimmering curious point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208661)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: crusty poppy people who are hurt stead

Slezkine characterizes the Jews (alongside other groups such as the Armenians, overseas Chinese, Gypsies) as a Mercurian people "specializ[ing] exclusively in providing services to the surrounding food-producing societies," which he characterizes as Apollonians. This division is, according to him, recurring in pre-20th century societies. With the exception of the Gypsies, these "Mercurian peoples" have all enjoyed great socioeconomic success relative to the average among their hosts, and have all, without exception, attracted hostility and resentment. A recurring pattern of the relationship between Apollonians and Mercurian people is that the social representation of each group by the other is symmetrical, for instance Mercurians see Apollonians as brutes while Apollonians see Mercurians as effeminate. Mercurians develop a culture of "purity" and "national myths" to cultivate their separation from the Apollonians, which allows them to provide international services (intermediaries, diplomacy) or services that are taboo for the local Apollonian culture (linked to death, magic, sexuality or banking). Slezkine develops this thesis by arguing that the Jews, the most successful of these Mercurian peoples, have increasingly influenced the course and nature of Western societies, particularly during the early and middle periods of Soviet Communism, and that modernity can be seen as a transformation of Apollonians into Mercurians.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208812)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 2:39 PM
Author: Silver insecure location

you know, I like it, it's a neat theory, but it doesn't really explain how all overseas chinese just become automatically mercurian when the same folks are apollonian back in the old country.

on the other hand, the description of jewish moneylenders and chinese entrepreneurs in SE asia as "market minorities" as opposed to "sons of the soil" by, of all people, tiger mom amy chua (herself a descendant of such a family, who actually got pogrommed in the philippines), rings more apt, but settles for empirical description at the expense of predictive power. sometimes you want a little bit of essentialism, and the market minority explanation seems not to offer much in the way of "all market minority tribes have this in common"

above the senegalese are called an "agricultural people". senegalese are not what i think of when i hear "agricultural people". i think of the classical agricultural societies of china, india, japan, france. there is no doubt that debt collectors are going to form an outgroup -- they are even in modern day america. but the senegalese don't strike me as fitting into that classical slavic paradigm, where the rural community exists in uneasy tension with jew and gypsy permanent outsiders/perennial visitors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35210746)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 3:06 PM
Author: garnet electric selfie indian lodge

slezkine has numerous examples of service nomad minorities within settled african societies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35210975)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 3:13 PM
Author: Silver insecure location

fine, will check out.

i suppose what gets my craw about senegal being called agricultural is that the men being idle while women are productive makes senegal a hoe society as opposed to a plow society, and all the traditional associations of the "agricultural society" epithet are aspects of plow culture.

https://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/12/plow-cultures-v-hoe-cultures.html

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/hoe-cultures-a-type-of-non-patriarchal-society/

www.economist.com/node/18986073

blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/men-at-work-hoes-ploughs-and-steel/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/31/equality-hoes-ploughs-women-agriculture

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35211036)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 3:36 PM
Author: garnet electric selfie indian lodge

thanks for lecturing me on horticulturalism vs farming bro. anyway slezkine's case isn't much affected by that distinction -- his point is that traveling outsiders are needed to perform some vital but socially unacceptable functions.

on another note, i found the real emotional core of the book to be chapter 3, how the soviet jews found true happiness in the first 20 years of the USSR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35211260)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 6:32 PM
Author: Underhanded disturbing immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192166)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 6:43 PM
Author: slate razzle hospital

180. is the author a jewess?

https://www.amazon.com/Karin-McQuillan/e/B00IQT52I2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192227)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 7:03 PM
Author: Startling principal's office headpube

libs?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192373)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 7:08 PM
Author: buff motley field half-breed

From the tone, you can tell she was expecting a BBC Safari, got jilted, and mad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192411)



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Date: January 19th, 2018 7:16 PM
Author: harsh bright area reading party

fucking nigger apes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35192458)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:09 AM
Author: wild beady-eyed dog poop

Shithole

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208710)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:13 AM
Author: galvanic weed whacker orchestra pit

A shocking depth of insight from a typical America. I think a lot of us who are immigrants who have lived in two cultures also know this. Cultures are NOT the same. Cultural values and norms are not the same. The differences are very real and no, they do not disappear when you get an American Visa.

I am impressed that she learned in one year what we learned in a lifetime. Not a lot of people can do that. She is 100% correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208730)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Startling principal's office headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208734)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: shimmering curious point

What's interesting to me is that, per my poast above, it almost seems as though those cultural values continue after generations and generations.

I can't quite explain that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208744)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Startling principal's office headpube

coming from a city where there are a fuckload of ethnic whites i would say the cultural values last a good 4-5 generations in some cases and 2-3 generations in almost all cases

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208760)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:23 AM
Author: shimmering curious point

i would agree.

i also think there is a natural tendency to want to understand one's own background and culture, and so certainly the less time your ancestors have been here the more likely you are to identify with your ancestral culture. hell, my dad's family has been here like 150 years and i find myself strongly identifying with that part of my background.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208766)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: Startling principal's office headpube

yeah same for me on my mom's side

but my dad's side is much more recent (his grandparents emigrated to US) and i dont identify with that side whatsoever even though my name is clearly from that part of the world

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208779)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: shimmering curious point

yeah i'm the same but the opposite. my mom's side is more recent (one grandparent immigrated, the other was born here to immigrants), but i more strongly identify with my dad's side, even though they have been here longer, and that identification gets stronger as i get older.

i think that's true of most people who are from two different backgrounds, even people of mixed European background like me (and I presume you as well). each person feels a stronger identity to one over the other for whatever reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208811)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 2:41 PM
Author: Silver insecure location

prestige. branding.

it's almost as if the mutt children of european mixes can pick which identity to emphasize in the land of the free and the pursuit of happiness. but of course, coloreds can never do a thing like that.

Increasingly, Latinos are identifying racially as white. In fact, more than half did so in the 2010 U.S. Census. A March 2016 report from Pew Research Center found that 39% of Afro-Latinos also identified “as white alone or white in combination with another race.” With a current population of around 58 million, Latinos make up the second-largest ethnic group in the U.S., just behind whites.

Another Pew Research Center study from December found that 59% of U.S. adults with Latino heritage who identify as white believe others see them as white, too. Over time, the study found, descendants of Latino immigrants stop identifying with their countries of origin and consider themselves more and more American.

Fuentes — who says he’s about 25% Mexican — identifies as white, not Latino. In an interview with Mic, Fuentes also said he believes multiculturalism threatens white national identity. Monzon, meanwhile, has called for South Florida to secede from the U.S. His ties to the League of the South are generational, as his parents have also protested with the white supremacist fringe group, according to the SPLC. In a Facebook profile the SPLC has attributed to him, Monzon goes by “Ambrosio Gonzalez,” the name of a Cuban general who fought as a Confederate colonel in the Civil War.

https://mic.com/articles/187062/with-the-rise-of-the-alt-right-latino-white-supremacy-may-not-be-a-contradiction-in-terms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35210762)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: talented kitty

odd case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208822)



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Date: January 22nd, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: exhilarant bat-shit-crazy property jewess

180 read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3864581&forum_id=2#35208960)