Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet.
Apple pie is alright. Hot dogs are contributing to an increasing American obesity epidemic. Baseball is made up of a record number of foreigners. And Chevrolet is now Government Motors. You're welcome for the bailout by the way.
The problem is, America seems to have an identity crisis. Moving beyond the fact that the above quintessential icons of traditional Americana seem to have lost their luster, the real problem is that there seems to be a dying out of the common American identity.
Nations are defined by their borders, their language, and their culture. Our vast southern border is non existent, our language is not spoken by the new immigrant class, and our culture is so diverse it has no identity whatsoever. It is also perverse.
The traditional characteristics of America are fading away into the whisps of time. No more is there a common morality and spirituality held in the Christian religion and no more is there the stable family run by a mother and a father. Where morality and religion were once part of the American identity, immorality and secularism now are. Billy Graham is now Billy Maher and the Bible is now ridiculed while homosexuality is the new norm. Along racial lines, just as the era of the Arab Muslim has come upon us in Europe, so is the era of the Hispanic in America. Radical feminists have caused both of these inevitable demographic phenomenons by indoctrinating Western women in the art of refraining from childbearing. The "browning" of America is inevitable and within fifty years, if we still have a country, the European American will no longer be the face of the nation. And no more is there the rugged American individualism of Daniel Boone, and Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. That trait is gone in every way imaginable.
While culture and ethnicity do matter, it isn't something to dwell on. I don't salivate over a cartoonish version of America where everyone is a white, upstanding, Christian cowboy, who eats nothing but BBQ and apple pie. I enjoy and welcome the ethnic delights our diverse population has bestowed upon this country. And I really like Hispanic food!
So what does it really mean to be an American? Surely, it is more than just baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. It moves beyond these superficial icons, which are dying out anyway, to a shared philosophy that is deeply, uniquely American: the concept of limited government and individualism. This is an American concept, borne from the tumultuous Revolution in a time when monarchs and dukes and barons were the law. The Mexican born Los Angeles shop owner has just about as much in common with the Indiana farmer as an Aussie has with a Brazilian. They are culturally and racially divided. But if he can hold dear the sacred truths of individual liberty and freedom from government, he is an American in every sense.
While cultural and racial changes are big transformations, the area where America really has an identity crisis is in shared vision. The nation is polarized, between those who desire to bring about a new era of failed European style socialist government and those who desire limited government as the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is a divide more important and more impacting than any racial demographic changes or cultural changes. In fact, the idea of limited government is a very part of our culture. It is what makes us who we are as Americans. The progressive movement that wishes to change the very soul of the nation by implementing crushing government that strips the liberty from the people and turns them into European serfs sucking on the tit of the state, are less American than the Mexican born LA shop owner who believes in the concepts that are truly, uniquely American: individualism and freedom from government.
This is where America truly has an identity crisis and I would prefer a future America of brown skinned freedom lovers who love the Constitution and limited government, than a nation of white Berkeley liberals who think government is the answer to everything.
Apple pie is alright. Hot dogs are contributing to an increasing American obesity epidemic. Baseball is made up of a record number of foreigners. And Chevrolet is now Government Motors. You're welcome for the bailout by the way.
The problem is, America seems to have an identity crisis. Moving beyond the fact that the above quintessential icons of traditional Americana seem to have lost their luster, the real problem is that there seems to be a dying out of the common American identity.
Nations are defined by their borders, their language, and their culture. Our vast southern border is non existent, our language is not spoken by the new immigrant class, and our culture is so diverse it has no identity whatsoever. It is also perverse.
The traditional characteristics of America are fading away into the whisps of time. No more is there a common morality and spirituality held in the Christian religion and no more is there the stable family run by a mother and a father. Where morality and religion were once part of the American identity, immorality and secularism now are. Billy Graham is now Billy Maher and the Bible is now ridiculed while homosexuality is the new norm. Along racial lines, just as the era of the Arab Muslim has come upon us in Europe, so is the era of the Hispanic in America. Radical feminists have caused both of these inevitable demographic phenomenons by indoctrinating Western women in the art of refraining from childbearing. The "browning" of America is inevitable and within fifty years, if we still have a country, the European American will no longer be the face of the nation. And no more is there the rugged American individualism of Daniel Boone, and Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. That trait is gone in every way imaginable.
While culture and ethnicity do matter, it isn't something to dwell on. I don't salivate over a cartoonish version of America where everyone is a white, upstanding, Christian cowboy, who eats nothing but BBQ and apple pie. I enjoy and welcome the ethnic delights our diverse population has bestowed upon this country. And I really like Hispanic food!
While cultural and racial changes are big transformations, the area where America really has an identity crisis is in shared vision. The nation is polarized, between those who desire to bring about a new era of failed European style socialist government and those who desire limited government as the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is a divide more important and more impacting than any racial demographic changes or cultural changes. In fact, the idea of limited government is a very part of our culture. It is what makes us who we are as Americans. The progressive movement that wishes to change the very soul of the nation by implementing crushing government that strips the liberty from the people and turns them into European serfs sucking on the tit of the state, are less American than the Mexican born LA shop owner who believes in the concepts that are truly, uniquely American: individualism and freedom from government.
This is where America truly has an identity crisis and I would prefer a future America of brown skinned freedom lovers who love the Constitution and limited government, than a nation of white Berkeley liberals who think government is the answer to everything.
I pretty much agree, but I think you're a little to hard on Hispanics.
ReplyDeleteThey've been here in the Southwest since before the nation's founding, and they've all assimilated. Look at how many people with Hispanic last names don't even speak Spanish. And they are very entrepreneurial.
The problem, and you briefly touched on it, is the progressive nannys who lure people here and then treat them like children, encouraging them to become entitled wards of the state.
They don't come here hating whitey and expecting special victim status, but the progressive welfare statists indoctrinate as many as they can.
On the contrary, I respect and like the Hispanic people and culture and I apologize for conveying any sort of negative undertone towards them!
ReplyDeleteMy point was to emphasize the demographic trends, nothing more.
"...our language is not spoken by the new immigrant class..."
ReplyDeleteNew immigrants rarely speak the language of the country they immigrate to. My grandparents lived here for over 50 years and barely were able to speak English when they died. And that was a long time ago--in the good old days you yearn for. The first and second generations always assimilate. I had to learn my parents' and grandparents' language in school.
"...and our culture is so diverse it has no identity whatsoever. It is also perverse."
That's not true. We have a diversity of cultures, but we're all culturally Americans. How is that perverse?
Where morality and religion were once part of the American identity, immorality and secularism now are.
Not true. How many prominent secularist/atheist politicians are there in America? And I mean pols who hold real power. Name an atheist president, speaker of the house, vice president.
You believe we live in immoral times? You think immorality exists only in the present? If you do, you haven't studied history.
The good old days were days when African Americans were murdered with impunity in the south, when Jewish people were kept out of country clubs and other places where they were despised and feared. The good old days when women were not allowed to own property or have their own credit cards? The good old days when family planning was against CIVIL law. The good old days when African Americans put their lives on the line for their country and came home to brutal descrimination and even death if they dared to exercise their Constitutionally guaranteed rights. The good old days when homosexuals were blackmailed and feared for their lives because of who they were? All of that was immoral, and it all happened when all white Christian morality was the norm.
"Billy Graham is now Billy Maher and the Bible is now ridiculed while homosexuality is the new norm."
Homosexuality is the new norm? No, sir. Homosexuals, a minority, are no longer demonized and denied their Constitutional rights. You seem to have a problem with that. Why? Heterosexuals are still the majority, so relax, you can even take showers with gays and they won't bother you. I promise.
"Radical feminists have caused both of these inevitable demographic phenomenons by indoctrinating Western women in the art of refraining from childbearing."
Seriously?
Feminists "indoctrinate" millions and millions of weak minded American women into NOT having babies?
This sounds like a parody of a crazed right-wing paranoid, which, of course, you aren't. Right? Because what other sort of person would believe American husbands and wives don't plan the size of their own families? Who on earth with come up with the idea of uniformed feminazies, banging down the doors in American homes, forcing American women to use birth control, diaphrams, interuterine devices AGAINST THEIR WILL?
Or do these feminazies hypnotize millions and millions of weak little American women through the teevees in their homes, while they're watching Desperate Housewives? Through their iPhones? iPads? Are the feminazies iSterilizers?
The "browning" of America is inevitable and within fifty years, if we still have a country, the European American will no longer be the face of the nation. And no more is there the rugged American individualism of Daniel Boone, and Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. That trait is gone in every way imaginable."
BTW, John Wayne was no rugged individual. But he played them in movies. He was married 3 times and had many mistresses during and in between his marriages.
Relax. There'll always be an America. We aren't going to the dogs, even if the president does occasionally eat one.
What's the problem with Chevrolet?
ReplyDeleteThey just invented a car Rush Limbaugh hates the VOLT the gas saving electric non oil derivative car.
I know you need that ability to give BP (British Petroleum a foreign co, as well as Shell Oil as well as OMG Citco, another foreign oil co all the subsidies they taxe'dly deserve at all the lowly US tax payers expense. (Since 1908) WOW!
I love GM. Maybe Mittens can't stand it, of course he has Fiat in his offshored bank accounts. Purrrrr ... meow. Well they have that sexy Scorpion as thier Logo/Emblem.
For a Euro car ... sex sells.
I mean, did you know the #1 state that buys pornography in the US is Utah, well don't be suprised, every Republican State leads the way with pornography purchases online than any other ... yeah it's a fact.
I'll take the Chevrolet, GM ... I have a Buick. It is a GM Product. How many here own a foreign car?
White Guy in Alaska