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While this may not be entirely true it is interesting as an outsider to see a nation so obsessed with race, perhaps this is because as a nation it was built on racist principles [the treatment and dispossession of the first nations, slavery, the treatment of Chinese railway workers and then successive waves of poor Europeans]?
Could it be that this is Karma in effect?

As Ruveyn says it's the same all over. It's human nature.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3192425.stm

The question is when will the people eventually become one nation?

If a white immigrant learns the language and maybe anglicises their name their children and grand children will be more easily accepted as 'American'.

Whereas a black or Asian person's descendants will still be 'Blacks' or 'Asians'. Catholics will still be Catholics, Muslims & Hindus will still be Muslims and Hindus.

Maybe the anti PC feeling means Americans are more likely to spew hatred openly.
But hate speech is not necessary for debating the issues. It seems that some have so much resentment that it is hard to stop it showing through.

Using hate speech stifles the debate of it deters some people from joining the discussion or even entering the board.
It also increases the chances that the discussion will descend into a flame fest with no real argument.

But still...

What I was trying to say was that in the US there seems to be a strong gravity towards retaining cultural divisions and feelings of inferiority/superiority when it comes to the relationship between blacks and whites. You don't see that kind of thing to the same degree with immigrant communities.

^ Yes, thank you......... i suggest you watch some Adam Curtis documentaries on youtube. In particular this one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZw8NRCPmSc (The living dead)

It details more on Ewen Cameron, his work, and others like him who attempted to become "Social engineers," and also rewire humans in the west so that they would naturally eschew or not even be exposed to ideas like Nationalism, which they viewed as dangerous and a step on the road back to Fascism. The elitists felt that they could really internalize internationalist values in people and eradicate those old ideas. They largely worked surreptitiously behind the scences but they were very influential, both in politics and business.

They decided that they needed permanent social controls, because in a true representative republic/democracy with true freedom, people would want "the wrong thing," or merely let their passions carry them off and vote for persuasive demagogues like Hitler. This could not be allowed, so there would have to be natural checks to ensure that people would never be able to take things in such a direction, even if they wanted to. They of course were determined never to allow any majority to ever again have its way and go after Jews or other minorities, and they would use their wealth and disporportional political/social influence to have their own way.

Part of this program was to gradually break down and erode the old majorities in Western countries, and allow immigration to rework the national identity. Eventually, this would be taken to the point of even having the minorities represent the European countries in Politics(Obama, Diane Abbot,) or in every public sphere........ sports, beauty pageants, etc. People would see visible minorities as their representatives and through a process, the old nationalist ideas would be replaced with "the human race," where nation-states were nothing more than geographical expressions.

These ideas began to gestate around the time of the big pogroms in circa-1900........... many educated Russian Jews fled to Germany and mixed with German Jews, and the discussions began on how to change societies in to such a manner where they would not have to deal with hostile gentiles who hated them so as it had been since Roman times. Their literal goal was to emasculate the white populations so that they would never be a threat to them, and possibly as well to import other minorities to deflect anti-semitism into other things, like anti-islamic movements. Of course, this seemed purely hypothetical at the time as nationalism and militarism, as well as the white birthrates, were so fecund in Europ prior to 1914, and the idea of Europe as a gelded shell of itself was unthinkable. After the end of WWI, and creation of the Soviet Union, a real host was opened up for these ideas to get legitimized and passed about. It was only after WWII when fascism became a dead ideology that all of this began to snowball.

I think in America, the real root of the decay goes all the way back to the Civil War and the Southern defeat though. That was the first crack in the armor.