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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Starmer's Sheeple Woes
Date: 05/12/26 2:00 PM
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They also bring their culture here. IMO, because we are a nation of immigrants, we are -relatively- adept at absorbing their cultures. Our culture, such as it is, is an amalgamation of LOTS of cultures. It was hard won, too. Even white folks had difficulties long ago (e.g. the Irish, later the Italians). But we seem to absorb pretty well.

Germany, England, France, Sweden...they don't have the -literally- centuries of practice that we have.


The difference is that immigrants to the US melted their culture in with the existing one, creating the America we have today. Everyone adapted. People came to the USA to become...Americans. One can quibble about hyphens but at the end of the day it's always "-American".

That's the model that works. The definition of "American" is actually quite simple: strongly independent. High work ethic. Love of family, love of nation. That's pretty much it and everything else is a detail.

But that's not what's happening in Europe right now. A lot of the people immigrating there have zero intention of becoming Danes or Germans or Brits. That's the problem. The "elites" in Brussels, London, Berlin and elsewhere think they're doing their nations a favor while ignoring a LOT of problems that are being imported with them.

Do you believe that you should have the right to say whatever you want about a religious figure any time you want? Or do you think that certain religious figures are off limits and that people should be punished for possibly offending others?
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