Brother John wrote:
Finally, the enormous problem of illegal immigration that we are having
here in the USA is caused in part by the huge birthrate among the
Hispanic people who live in Mexico and other nations of Latin America.
We aren't having children, and they are. Even here in the USA the
birthrate among the Hispanic people is much higher than among the
Anglo-Americans who have been here much longer. We ourselves used to be
an enormously fertile and prolific people. Our ascendancy over the
Native Americans who were here before us is as much a factor of the
difference in our relative birthrates as anything else.
Really. And where did these wonderfully prolific people come from? Would
we be horribly surprised to find that the most prolific of them were (gasp
of horror) immigrants!
We were growing like crazy. We had huge families and we did a good job
of taking care of them in comparison with the Native Americans of the
same period.
Mostly due to the science that you seem to be so profoundly skeptical of.
We literally populated a whole continent from "sea to shining sea."
Today we are just barely replacing ourselves and in some places there
would be no grown in our population whatever if it were not for Hispanic
immigrants and the large families they have before and after coming here.
Well, if we don't reproduce, we will just be replaced. That is just a
biological fact. We can agonize and discuss endlessly the moral and
religious aspects, but simple biology dictates that there is a
relationship between nativity and mortality. And that if a species or a
subgroup of a species does not reproduce, it dies out.
Or more likely, we intermarry and become one big happy family as has
happened continually in the past. And even if the majority in this
country does become Hispanic, so what. Are they lesser human beings?
Biologically the definition of a healthy and vigorous population is tied
to the food supply and the effect that has on reproduction. Populations
grow or they die out. If our culture has become as sterile and barren
as it seems to have, then the future is not good for us regardless of
the minor nits we like to endless discuss when the topic of abortion
comes up.
You seem to forget that we are a country of immigrants from all over the
world. The immigrants from Mexico are filling a niche. If we really
didn't want them or need them we would enforce strict laws against
employing them and without jobs, they would go home.
--
Doug
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