Refugees: they bring culture as well as diversity, so let’s celebrate! That seems to be the loony script for a local Minneapolis puff piece on what must be a slow news day.
World Refugee Day in Minnesota, Fox 9 News, June 5, 2010
The weather didn’t dampen a big gathering of international refugees in Minneapolis on Saturday. Minnesota is home to about 100,000 refugees.
They bring as much diversity as they do culture to this state.
Dozens of refugees gathered near 7th and Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis to share their culture through song, dance, and storytelling. The Twin Cities refugee community is resilient, and it’s why many people say the events went on as planned despite the rain Saturday afternoon.
It was an extremely personal celebration for the refugees who gathered.
Twin Cities World Refugee Day celebrates the thousands of refugees living in Minnesota. The state is home to the largest Somali community in North America, and one of the largest Hmong populations in the U.S.
What a curious idea that Minnesotans and Americans don’t have a culture, or enough of one, and must import it from other societies. The traditional American character remains quite robust and unique, despite decades of effort on the part of the left to denigrate the hallmark individualism, fairness and patriotism, qualities which are resurgent in the Tea Party movement.
It’s amazing that even the hopelessly liberal media can cheer the influx of Somalis when they have caused so much trouble in Minneapolis, e.g. gang crime, refugee fraud, FGM (a form of child torture), and a seemingly endless series of stories about terrorist connections. Not only have Somalis promoted sharia-compliant finance to help jihad, they organized a couple dozen young men to return to Somalia and kill those considered insufficiently hard-core Islamic.
(And the Hmong are not exactly desirable either, considering their polygamy, misogyny (e.g. marriage by kidnapping), mass murder (six Wisconsin hunters shot to death in 2004 by Chai Vang), primitive shamanism, demands for their culture to be taught to all and general annoying hmulticulturalism.)
Perhaps it’s a good thing that the MSM are propagandizing the populace into a perpetual pro-diversity froth, since many more are coming:
African influx reshapes immigration to Minnesota, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 15, 2010
For the first time ever, the continent is the source of a majority of Minnesota’s legal immigrants, with Somalis topping the list.
The flow of immigrants to Minnesota is quietly reaching record highs amid signs of what could prove to be a profound and lasting shift in their continents of origin.
For the first time ever, African nations are supplying more than half the state’s legal immigrants. Four countries from that continent now stand atop the list.
Arrivals are doubling and quadrupling from countries such as Kenya and Liberia even as numbers are tapering off, for a variety of reasons, from past immigrant taproots such as India, Thailand and Russia, federal data show.
Africans say they are attracted here for the same reasons as others — quality of life, good schools for their kids — with the additional twist of Minnesota’s reputation in parts of that continent as being receptive to immigrants with funny accents.
“Minnesota holds a very prominent place in the minds of Liberians,” said Ahmed Sirleaf, of Advocates for Human Rights, a worldwide nonprofit based in Minneapolis. “I’ve heard people there say that Minnesota is one of the very few states where an immigrant with an accent can be hired to work in his chosen profession. In other places, most people have to stay in odd jobs.
The famous “Minnesota nice” reputation is not helpful. Better to be a grouch in some situations, particularly when the Refugee Industrial Complex sees your state as a soft touch for the uber-diverse nobody sane wants.
