I should think a majority of the people in this country did aspire to this vision, or else we wouldn't be where we are today. You can say what you want about our many failings, but overall we ALL descended from these immigrants at some point, except the indigenous. That's what gets me: these "American Firsters" don't want to accept that only in the very beginning of our colonies were we an "anglo saxon" nation. I think every one of them should take a 23andMe DNA test and show us their results. Racial purity may have been possible a hundred+ years ago, but not today and I think that's a good thing. Travel, education, commerce, etc all have broken our borders. I know that scares the crap out of them, but they are behind the eight ball of worldwide progress.
I think a very few on this planet would discover any "purity" in their results. Migration has been a feature of humanoid life on this planet since we crawled out of the ocean, climbed down out of the trees, or left Eden (depending on your ideas about our origins). Sonia Shah's The Next Great Migration is very enlightening on the still ongoing circumnavigations humans have made around this globe. We are currently being encouraged to see migration as a purely contemporary problem. Shah offers a different view.
Except we as a country never meant it.
I should think a majority of the people in this country did aspire to this vision, or else we wouldn't be where we are today. You can say what you want about our many failings, but overall we ALL descended from these immigrants at some point, except the indigenous. That's what gets me: these "American Firsters" don't want to accept that only in the very beginning of our colonies were we an "anglo saxon" nation. I think every one of them should take a 23andMe DNA test and show us their results. Racial purity may have been possible a hundred+ years ago, but not today and I think that's a good thing. Travel, education, commerce, etc all have broken our borders. I know that scares the crap out of them, but they are behind the eight ball of worldwide progress.
Barbara, I had the same thought. How many of these "Firsters" could "pass" a 23andMe DNA test!
I think a very few on this planet would discover any "purity" in their results. Migration has been a feature of humanoid life on this planet since we crawled out of the ocean, climbed down out of the trees, or left Eden (depending on your ideas about our origins). Sonia Shah's The Next Great Migration is very enlightening on the still ongoing circumnavigations humans have made around this globe. We are currently being encouraged to see migration as a purely contemporary problem. Shah offers a different view.
Nope.