Majority of White Evangelicals Believe Immigrants Threaten American Values, Study Finds
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Tarpeian_Rock
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Perhaps it is less that “immigrants” threaten “American values” than it is the Political Correctness police - with an agenda of their own - undermining values and traditions in the name of “diversity.” I have seen numerous published interviews with Muslims, for example, expressing puzzlement that local officials seem to rush to ban things that Muslims accept as part of the America they have come to. Newly-arrived immigrants lack the power to make cultural changes on their own; it’s the bureaucrats and unelected regulators who seem to be in a hurry to change the traditional cultural landscape. And I’m sure there are also exceptions.
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whatsmyname
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I think limited immigration strengthens our society and our culture. I think huge numbers overwhelm our education, healthcare and welfare systems, and we currently have huge numbers. I think the numbers have to be controlled and small enough that the immigrants have a chance to be assimilated into our way of life, our laws, our beliefs, our culture, our language, and our values. With overwhelming numbers coming in all at once and living in separated areas of the city, they aren’t allowed or encouraged to be assimilated, and they aren’t assisted with that assimilation. They become separated, underprivileged, alienated individuals and that does not strengthen our value system.
Estimates are that approximately 27% of the people in my state are immigrants with about 10% of the population being illegal. Does that threaten American values? Well, it certainly drastically changes American values into the values of a lot of different other countries instead. We become not a melting pot, but a balkanized nation. And that large a number makes it impossible, in my opinion, for most of those immigrants to learn what American values are. Certainly the 10% of the population that is not here legally suffers by not being able to take advantage of all the legal protections they might have if they were here legally. Often, they are taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers and landlords, living like a quasi slave class. That is not an American value.
Estimates are that approximately 27% of the people in my state are immigrants with about 10% of the population being illegal. Does that threaten American values? Well, it certainly drastically changes American values into the values of a lot of different other countries instead. We become not a melting pot, but a balkanized nation. And that large a number makes it impossible, in my opinion, for most of those immigrants to learn what American values are. Certainly the 10% of the population that is not here legally suffers by not being able to take advantage of all the legal protections they might have if they were here legally. Often, they are taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers and landlords, living like a quasi slave class. That is not an American value.
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PJM
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MIGHT this be correctly understood; NOT as a FACT, but a subjective rendering of others holding views unaligned with there-own?
Easter Blessings,
Patrick
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Aslan10
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I know that Trump hasn’t been mentioned here, but clearly it is in line with the topic, and the current political phenomenon we are seeing in America right now. So, might I suggest people read this article, as well.
firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/03/the-myth-of-the-evangelical-trump-voters
firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/03/the-myth-of-the-evangelical-trump-voters
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John_Martin
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Most think the “poor” are a problem to be solved.
Not so with Fulton Sheen, who call “the Poor” a “Mystery”, in the same light that the Sacraments, and the Church, are a Mystery.
You look at a Mystery, in the eye, to know it; you do not look in the eye of a problem but try to avoid it coming close to you.
Not so with Fulton Sheen, who call “the Poor” a “Mystery”, in the same light that the Sacraments, and the Church, are a Mystery.
You look at a Mystery, in the eye, to know it; you do not look in the eye of a problem but try to avoid it coming close to you.
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PJM
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FabiusMaximus
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The last time the numbers got that high Congress passed some of the most stringent immigration legislation in our history. And I think that’s a good thing. Immigration isn’t a right people have. Countries are sovereign and have the right to control the flow of people that enter their country. Even the modern 1965 Immigration Act, when it was passed, was supposed to not have any measurable impact on immigration flows at all (which ended up being an incorrect assumption or an outright lie, depending who you ask).
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Son_of_Niall
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Somebody should have told the Native Americans that.
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Seamus_L
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European-Indian relations are alot more complex than that. In short, some land was conquered, other lands were bought, and in other cases Europeans were invited to settle.
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FabiusMaximus
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Umm what?
The Native Americans had no concept of modern statehood. What are you referring to?
meltzerboy
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Every immigrant group has faced prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory behavior since the founding of the country, and this is likely to continue for quite a while. Such attitudes and behaviors are based mainly on fear, anger, ignorance, and a feeling of superiority.
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Son_of_Niall
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Manifest Destiny?
Native Americans were considered ‘nations’. WE imposed the word ‘tribes’ on them, drove them from their lands that WE immigrants considered our “right” to settle.
Now the tables are turning.
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Seamus_L
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Catholic France, Spain, and Portugal claimed vast territories in the Americas as well. Imagine what they’d be like without evangelization ? I shudder to think.
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