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Chinese Merchants Protest In Milan's Streets |
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A battle
of cultures, business and lifestyles is being waged in Milan's
Chinatown. This battle has been escalating
for months. The symbol of the war is
the metal pushcart that the many Chinese wholesale clothing
merchants have used to shuttle large
volumes of inexpensive shirts, shoes and
jeans to the idling vans and cars of waiting
local buyers. |
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| This
Chinese market story verifies that the same thing is happening
everywhere in this Age Of Migration. Peoples are
migrating from their ancestral homelands to new -- but well
established -- homelands. The destination homelands have their own
peculiar cultural aspects and traditions that work well. |
| There is
no stopping the changes that are and will
continue to impact existing cultures. However, one aspect must be
prevented in order to preserve existing cultures. That is, the
relative degradation of existing culture as
newly-empowered groups
infiltrate, but fail to fluidly integrate.
Instead of integrating and accepting, some cultures operate
in ill-mannered, unproductive
ways. |
| We can
only hope that the cultures and subcultures that migrate into our
culture are productive, non-violent, and worthy of
our acceptance and our adapting to their
ways. It is likely that many Americans can name
domestically-bred minority groups that fit
a negative, failing
profile. Americans need only consider the recent five decades and
observe changes throughout the US. |
| Americans
have been force-fed
acceptance of minority groups
that refuse to upgrade themselves. They
stubbornly shove their unproductive, noisy, going-nowhere
culture upon the Great American Dream. |
| The
infiltrating migrants too often fail to
learn the language of their new homeland. They tend to
isolate themselves. Criminal gangs
rise up and flourish.
Too often the minority groups demand public assistance. And too
often they use public assistance to further their isolation and
maintain subsistence lifestyles. |
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| The
Chinese generally work to build and produce. They perform in the manner they
have developed over centuries and have learned from birth. They are
most often productive, positive, and worthy of consideration and
acceptance. We can learn from each other... and improve each
other. |
| Migrants
from all cultures should recall the reason they migrated. It was to
upgrade themselves, not downgrade their new homeland. |