Has the USA ever completely assimilated it's own without bigotry or oppression?
Has Brown vs. The Board of Education ever lead to the defeat of segregation?
Indeed who is the assimilated and who are the unassimible?
The 'favorite' expression by Neocons in grappling with criticism of them is to call it 'grieving' by those oppressed while they have affection in thinking of Bush as "The Rascally Rabbit."
They would like to think so.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Assimilation or Unassimible
The origins of the word 'assimilation' comes from the Latin assimilatio; meaning 'to render simple.'
In other words when coming across 'difference' we make the difference small and bring it to our perspective. But, what is it like to be 'assimilated.' Is it a wonderful experience or a stressful event that holds resentment against it' s assimlilator.
The primary vechile for any assimilation is language, gesture and symbolism. All those words represent communication. Without communication could assimilation be possible.
The word assimilation has been tossed around a great deal in these days of coming to understand foreign cultures and wondering how exactly we 'change' those cultures to an take on by 'consent' of all parties 'terms to live by' and not 'to die by.'
The history of assimilation familiar to most Americans is the "The Melting/Melding Pot" of the early 1900s whereby people from all over the world immigrated to the USA through Ellis Island and otherwise. They came to the promised land of sorts. A place where freedom was everything and there would be 'acceptance' of them as they are. But was it really? Was the assimilation into the USA actually a melting pot whereby all people stayed the same but were different giving up language barriers to speak English while maintaining their native language to speak within their homes. How many ethnicities were lost in just three short generations to school education that would be American with little ethnic delineation
The earliest days of the USA before there was a Declaration of Independance demanded assimilation from familiarity of Europe into the 'wilds' of a colony with it's own demands but yet accepting of those that came eventually to dominate the land of the 'Americas' nearly committing genocide of the Native Americans whom's land we took for ourselves.
Assimilation. The ability to capture an 'idea' that is different and not native is the very essence of exploration and the spirit that drove American Colonists to Revolution. The expansiveness of the colonies, it's freedom, it's restrictions, it's meeting houses requiring not Lords and Ladies to 'run things' but people who knew the savvy experience of being a colonist and how to 'control' that experience to break away from the military domination of Britian.
Was the Americas and later the United States of America a huge success or simply a vast wasting of culture to wittle down difference to 'religion and food items?'
Does assimliation work? Does it create rebels and do those rebels deserve recognition or oppression? Can you oppress rebellion found in a world organized in freedom where change guarnatees problems with order and the essence of who one is originates from change and not familiarity.
I proport assimilation is destruction by it's very nature and while today the 'culture of the West' seeks to move others towards acceptance of democracy it isn't realistic to believe it is The West that will dominate others while they change so much as it is The West that continues to be defeated by the unassimble.
I believe the touted assimliation by The West of other culture to bring about so called peace and survival is in itself 'the threat' that we all fear. The USA today is NOT the same as before 2001 and has allowed assimliation of facism in the HOPES of being a safe and sovereign nation protected from extremists of those unassibible.
On foreign soil the USA seeks to be victors to assimilation by 'injecting' democratic principles into constitutions based in Islamic principle. Can democracy actually survive in any climate other than that of democratic principles itself?
I say not and what has happened to the USA is to assimilate THE FEAR OF DEFEAT into what it calls protection by the very FACT we are no safer today than we were four years ago. We have allowed our democracy to assimilate to facism by men who seek power over principle and wealth over government.
The USA has taken it's melting pot to it's finale and has ALREADY SURRENDERED it's so called democratic principles to the fear laden imaginations produced by people who are unassimible including the fanatical Evangelical President who is most unassimible of all.
Did I hear anyone say the USA has radified Kyoto? Or made commitments in the same measure as every other First World nation on Earth?
I didn't think so.
In other words when coming across 'difference' we make the difference small and bring it to our perspective. But, what is it like to be 'assimilated.' Is it a wonderful experience or a stressful event that holds resentment against it' s assimlilator.
The primary vechile for any assimilation is language, gesture and symbolism. All those words represent communication. Without communication could assimilation be possible.
The word assimilation has been tossed around a great deal in these days of coming to understand foreign cultures and wondering how exactly we 'change' those cultures to an take on by 'consent' of all parties 'terms to live by' and not 'to die by.'
The history of assimilation familiar to most Americans is the "The Melting/Melding Pot" of the early 1900s whereby people from all over the world immigrated to the USA through Ellis Island and otherwise. They came to the promised land of sorts. A place where freedom was everything and there would be 'acceptance' of them as they are. But was it really? Was the assimilation into the USA actually a melting pot whereby all people stayed the same but were different giving up language barriers to speak English while maintaining their native language to speak within their homes. How many ethnicities were lost in just three short generations to school education that would be American with little ethnic delineation
The earliest days of the USA before there was a Declaration of Independance demanded assimilation from familiarity of Europe into the 'wilds' of a colony with it's own demands but yet accepting of those that came eventually to dominate the land of the 'Americas' nearly committing genocide of the Native Americans whom's land we took for ourselves.
Assimilation. The ability to capture an 'idea' that is different and not native is the very essence of exploration and the spirit that drove American Colonists to Revolution. The expansiveness of the colonies, it's freedom, it's restrictions, it's meeting houses requiring not Lords and Ladies to 'run things' but people who knew the savvy experience of being a colonist and how to 'control' that experience to break away from the military domination of Britian.
Was the Americas and later the United States of America a huge success or simply a vast wasting of culture to wittle down difference to 'religion and food items?'
Does assimliation work? Does it create rebels and do those rebels deserve recognition or oppression? Can you oppress rebellion found in a world organized in freedom where change guarnatees problems with order and the essence of who one is originates from change and not familiarity.
I proport assimilation is destruction by it's very nature and while today the 'culture of the West' seeks to move others towards acceptance of democracy it isn't realistic to believe it is The West that will dominate others while they change so much as it is The West that continues to be defeated by the unassimble.
I believe the touted assimliation by The West of other culture to bring about so called peace and survival is in itself 'the threat' that we all fear. The USA today is NOT the same as before 2001 and has allowed assimliation of facism in the HOPES of being a safe and sovereign nation protected from extremists of those unassibible.
On foreign soil the USA seeks to be victors to assimilation by 'injecting' democratic principles into constitutions based in Islamic principle. Can democracy actually survive in any climate other than that of democratic principles itself?
I say not and what has happened to the USA is to assimilate THE FEAR OF DEFEAT into what it calls protection by the very FACT we are no safer today than we were four years ago. We have allowed our democracy to assimilate to facism by men who seek power over principle and wealth over government.
The USA has taken it's melting pot to it's finale and has ALREADY SURRENDERED it's so called democratic principles to the fear laden imaginations produced by people who are unassimible including the fanatical Evangelical President who is most unassimible of all.
Did I hear anyone say the USA has radified Kyoto? Or made commitments in the same measure as every other First World nation on Earth?
I didn't think so.
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Words and music by freddie mercury
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I’m just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I’m easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn’t really matter to me,
To me
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn’t mean to make you cry-
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I’ve got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all-
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family-Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can’t do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,Nothing really matters-,
nothing really matters to me,
Any way the wind blows....
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I’m just a poor boy,i need no sympathy-
Because I’m easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low,
Anyway the wind blows,doesn’t really matter to me,
To me
Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s dead,
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away-
Mama ooo,
Didn’t mean to make you cry-
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters-
Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I’ve got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth-
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all-
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family-Spare him his life from this monstrosity-
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go-
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me-
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can’t do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here-
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,Nothing really matters-,
nothing really matters to me,
Any way the wind blows....
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