Nativist culture

[Sagefrakrobatik]

The Nativists

 

[LCMS_No_More]

I think that there are some here who would find no problem with these…persons.

Personally, I find them loathsome and unchristian in the extreme.

 

[SeekerJen]

I think that there are some here who would find no problem with these…persons.

Personally, I find them loathsome and unchristian in the extreme.

I’m hesitant to click on the link. What is this?

 

[Mirdath]

I’m hesitant to click on the link. What is this?

Brief profiles of twenty relatively famous nativists (subscribers to an extreme anti-immigration political philosophy – the heirs of the people who put up signs in their windows saying ‘No Irish Need Apply’, etcetera). There’s nothing horrifying on the site itself (at least that isn’t in words describing these people); it’s the Southern Poverty Law Center.

 

[rwoehmke]

Nativists in the past were those who opposed, sometimes with violence, the influx of legal immigrants who were Roman Catholics. I would suppose they sometimes included those who opposed the immigration of orientals, mostly Chinese in the West. They paint themselves as the true native Americans, white and protestant. We usually would classify them as bigots. They feared that Catholics would soon outnumber them and the Pope would take over as the leader in charge of America. There is a movie called “The Streets of New York” which pictured the situation between the Nativists and the Irish immigrants in New York in the 19th Century. The oriental immigrants were called “The Yellow Peril.” Now the Hispanics are having their tun as the focus of such people. I think that the present generation has lost sight of the way in which many of our great grandparents and even grandparents were greeted when the came to these shores. My wifes mother and father, now dead, used to comment on the number of businesses and households looking for maids had signs that read “Irish need not apply.”

Some of you might wonder why before Vatican II there were so many catholic Schools. It was because the Public Schools in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century taught protestant but not denominational teaching from the KJV bible. Prayer was a part of the day. It was a time of separation of denomination and state which got around the more recent times when it morphed into a separation of religion and state. There was an attempt at one point to require by law that Catholic children must attend a Public School and learn how to be “True Americans”, read little protestants. We Catholics owe a lot to our ancestors who actually fought both in court and physically at times to retain the right to practice Catholicism.

Today we are generally blessed that most of us including our non-Catholic friends who post here can appreciate each other’s points of view…

 

[SeekerJen]

Nativists in the past were those who opposed, sometimes with violence, the influx of legal immigrants who were Roman Catholics. I would suppose they sometimes included those who opposed the immigration of orientals, mostly Chinese in the West. They paint themselves as the true native Americans, white and protestant. We usually would classify them as bigots. They feared that Catholics would soon outnumber them and the Pope would take over as the leader in charge of America. There is a movie called “The Streets of New York” which pictured the situation between the Nativists and the Irish immigrants in New York in the 19th Century. The oriental immigrants were called “The Yellow Peril.” Now the Hispanics are having their tun as the focus of such people. I think that the present generation has lost sight of the way in which many of our great grandparents and even grandparents were greeted when the came to these shores. My wifes mother and father, now dead, used to comment on the number of businesses and households looking for maids had signs that read “Irish need not apply.”

Considering that the vast majority of our families have only been here for a few centuries at most, the nativist mindset seems quite ridiculous to me.

 

[puzzleannie]

unless these uh persons are indeed Navajos, Cherokee, Inuit or members of another native American tribal group they themselves are descended from immigrants and should remove themselves to their country of origin as soon as possible, so the rest of us can breathe better. The people who have a legitimate beef with “immigration” are members of the aforesaid tribal groups, so let them lead the debate. since OP did not give the required info on the link, it is to the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center and its report on these “activitsts”.