On 19 May 2008 at 0:59, Charlie Bell wrote: > > Way to miss my point! There are some groups (and congats, you missed > > my point - I'm talking about Europe's little issue) who don't, in the > > large, participate in the culture of the nation they live in, and > > indeed detest it. > > You're talking at cross-purposes, you know...
Possibly, but it's something which you have to consider - sometimes "help" doesn't actually "help" several generations down the line and you end up with a horrible mess. Look at the "help" people have given in the Balklans, for example. > > You don't follow a mildly...oooh > > fundermentalist creed where y'know, nobody else is remotely equal to > > your people, and so on. > > What, like you (and your people?)? Way to project, dude. You know, > nearly every religion and nationalist system does just that. There's a difference between putting your group first in consideration, and a group which advocates a system of laws incompatible with the law of the land and treats other groups harshly. And it's an issue when a minority of the group, usually the young men, is very much reprisented in certain types of crime because of their beliefs. My ancestry is, I believe, part Russian Jewish and part Polish Jewish. But we don't know for sure. And I'd point out that as minority we don't tend to go out causing trouble (it comes to us, but that's another rant). AndrewC _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
