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Hispandering Newt States His Support for English Carefully

Candidate Newt Gingrich certainly knows his target audience of hispanics, in particular that immigrants come for the Yankee dollar only, not to become assimilated Americans as earlier generations did.

As an example, Pew researchers found that among young second-generation hispanics, 62 percent identified themselves according to their ancestral home country or as hispanic/latino, not as Americans. [...]

Asian Diversity Is Considered in New Study

There’s a new report filled with lots of interesting Asian statistics, focusing on education but including a wide range of social measures, informing anyone who is interested that Asians residing in America are diverse.

Not all are college graduates. Chinese are high achievers, as we were recently reminded by the Tiger Mom Chinese supremacist imbroglio. But [...]

Rasmussen Poll: Citizens Still Expect That Immigrants Assimilate to America

Down in the middle paragraphs of a recent Rasmussen survey is an important point about what traditional Americans expect from new immigrants in this time of trendy (but increasingly discredited) multiculturalism: nearly three-fourths of voters queried thought that old-fashioned assimilation to this nation’s laws, language and culture is still a requirement.

The social contract of America [...]

Germany: Book Critical of Immigration Costs

Udo Ulfkotte (see his homepage) is a German journalist and critic of Islam. He published a new book last year Kein Schwarz. Kein Rot. Kein Gold., which he discussed with the press in the videos below, emphasizing the cost of the “integration-resistant immigrant” to the taxpayer, along with the cultural chasm created by the beliefs [...]

Diverse Non-Assimilation in New York City

So how’s that immigrant assimilation project moving along?

In some diversity-engulfed areas, like New York City (foreign-born population around 36 percent), progress is moving backwards, as illustrated by Mexican indians who attend classes to learn Spanish. The espanol Mexicans insult the Mixteco speakers etc., so they choose to study Spanish rather than English, which would open [...]

White House Advisor Reviews Hispanic Education Challenges

An interview with a hispanic education advisor in the White House indicates an interesting combination of honesty and a sense of entitlement. Juan Sepulveda admits that hispanic students are at rock bottom of academic achievement (unlike other immigrant groups such as Asians who adapt readily to America’s education opportunities).

In fact, the hispanic education environment is [...]

Egyptian Immigrants Consider Returning to Dear Homeland

The hope for positive political change in Egypt has caused a number of its emigres to consider departing for the land of their birth. The New York Times naturally reports this an an upbeat tale of modern diversity and mobility.

The unspoken reality, too negative for the Times, is that most immigrants are essentially squatters who [...]

Sarkozy Says Multiculturalism a Failure

It’s odd that France’s Nicolas Sarkozy felt he had to be play catch-up with the UK’s David Cameron and Germany’s Angela Merkel in saying multiculturalism was a big mistake. In some ways, Sarkozy was ahead of the pack by calling for a ban on burqas a couple years back, which caused jaws to drop at [...]

Angela Merkel: Multiculturalism Is a Failure in Germany

How sweet to hear those words on the radio today, broadcast by the BBC. It was a fine moment to hear the leader of a major European nation admit that one of the most cherished liberal ideologies hasn’t worked out at all in actual practice.

It’s a beautiful fantasy, that all of humanity can join hands [...]

Germany: Book Critical of Islamization Finds an Audience

In Germany, the man expressing the popular anger against Muslim immigrants who refuse to assimilate happens to be a banker until recently employed as a board member of the Bundesbank.

Thilo Sarrazin has been excoriated for writing a book that is critical of Muslim immigration, Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany does away with itself). The author [...]

Cousin Marriage among British Pakistanis Has Brought an Array of Genetic Illnesses

The news program Dispatches recently focused on the problem of consanguinity in Pakistanis. While the practice is now understood to be dangerous, customs can be very stubborn. In fact, cousin marriage is on the increase in Britain among south Asians.

Tazeen Ahmad, a Pakistani who saw the consequences in her own family of consanguinity, wrote a [...]

More Interpretation of the Univision Poll on Assimilation

It is curious that the Associated Press has dedicated a second article to a July poll commissioned by the AP and Univision. Perhaps economic realities have forced AP’s head office to recommend thrifty use of recycled materials: publish poll results, wait a couple weeks and then rehash the information in a “new” article.

The first piece, [...]

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