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Paul #fundie amnation.com

In general, Asians appreciate and cultivate aspects of Western culture more than any other non-white group. My Indian friends went to British schools and they read all the same books I did growing up, even American authors like Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne. I listen to a classical music station daily and most of the hot young classical artists these days are Chinese. But in the time I spent abroad, among other things, I became convinced that the idea of adoring nature is a product of the West. Before Edmund Hillary made his summit of Mt. Everest and made the Himalayas into a world-class destination for mountaineers, Nepali and Tibetan ethnic people did not go mountain-climbing. They regard it as dangerous and foolhardy. They only do it nowadays days if they are working for the tourist industry. They make magnificent trekking guides. They will risk their lives for you. But trekking is never something they would do for recreation.

If you get stranded high on a mountain and you're a foreign tourist, they'll send a helicopter rescue for you. If you're Nepali, they'll leave you up there; you were supposed to have sense enough not to go there in the first place.

The majority of trekkers who visit Nepal come from the United States, Europe, and Australia, with a small percentage from Japan. White people of Northern European extraction have a solid reputation for being the only people who would spend big bucks on a vacation where you will most certainly get dysentery, pick leeches off you, and possibly even get killed.
I've trekked in remote areas of the Himalayas, which is as close as you can get to outer space without leaving the planet. The ethnic people there are very suspicious of foreigners. Unless you're a scientist or a missionary, they can't make sense of why you're there. Why would anyone go out of their way just to look at beautiful scenery? My brother-in-law once made a cross-country road trip and drove 100 miles out of his way to visit the Grand Canyon. Afterwards he said, what's the big deal? It's just a big hole in the ground.â

Most definitely all Asians are not like him. But I used to think that being awestruck by nature was something hardwired into human beings. Now, I think of it as primarily a feature of white people and my experience has consistently borne that out.

A reader from Southern California #racist amnation.com

Because of sports I spent a lot of time when I was growing up in South Central L.A. (it was purely black then but now is half-Hispanic) and saw the Great American Negro unrestrained in his native habitat. I learned quickly that whites who had the least contact with blacks were the ones who thought most highly of them and those like me who had regular contact, not with an anomalous few, but with your garden-variety black, understood the reality of racial differences. My experience made it clear to me that the old saw, “Once you get to know them you will realize that our differences are only skin deep,” had it exactly inverted. I quickly learned that the least of our differences were skin color and that the more I knew of them the less I wanted them around me or even in my country. Meanwhile, people who had zero contact with blacks back in the Fifties in Wisconsin or England gushed about how wonderful Negroes were and how our bad opinions of them were a matter of prejudice. I told those people, including one of my brothers-in-law who had grown up in England, that I hadn’t pre-judged Negroes but, quite the opposite, my opinions came from years of regular contact with them in the heart of South Central L.A.—or deepest, darkest Africa as we called it.

CO #racist amnation.com

(Talking about an Asian friend who didn't see the big deal about the Grand Canyon.)

Roland D #racist amnation.com

Your expat correspondent in Thailand is dead wrong.
As he is married to one of the Sino-Thai elite, he has a very restricted view into Thais in general, and into Southeast Asians, generally.

His comments about there being little violence in Thailand and in Southeast Asia in general are a joke. All Southeast Asian societies have a constant susurrus of violence beneath their public facade, and Thailand is no different. [LA replies: susurrus is a word I didn’t know. Its two definitions are: the indistinct sound of people whispering, and a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind.] If you want, I can give you a lot of links to stories of Thai-on-foreigner violence and Thai-on-Thai violence; also, do remember the Thai military action in 2010 which officially resulted in the deaths of 91 Thais armed with nothing more sophisticated than slingshots and a few flare pistols.

Even amongst the Sino-Thai elite, there are contract murders and beatings resulting from business disputes, perceived loss of “face,” etc. And the children of the Sino-Thai elite literally get away with murder—five years later, the son of one of the Sino-Thai elite has still not been prosecuted for murdering a police officer in front of multiple witnesses, a Sino-Thai girl who killed five people in a van with her reckless driving still has not been prosecuted six months later, etc., ad nauseam.

The Sino-Thai elite all have a conspiracy-minded view of the world—as do all Asians, irrespective of income and educational level—and they all have superstitious beliefs regarding “black magic” and so forth. [LA replies: Whoops, another word soon to be banned.] They are the kind of people who would consume the pills made from the flesh of dead babies which were highlighted in a story I sent you a few days ago. And note that the elites of all Asian countries, with the exception of Japan and the Republic of Korea, are ethnic Chinese; it is they who run the governments and own the businesses.

Asian politics are focused around the use of power to obtain money, and the use of money to obtain power. Yes, his Sino-Thai wife and the junior generation are focused on shopping—whilst the older males who run their families/tribes/clans are all constantly jockeying for position in the civil and business realms in what they all view as a zero-sum game.

The USA absolutely does not need any more Asians of any stripe. Their worldview is a Hobbesian war of all against all, shaped by Confucian hyper-nepotism. They are uninterested in any sort of equitable civil polity—indeed, they are hostile to it, as they each wish their family/tribe/clan/region/racial sub-group/national/racial macro-group to dominate, in descending order of priority.

Lawrence Auster #racist amnation.com

[On the US Olympic basketball team being mostly black]

If one’s team no longer represents something good, if it’s a team of thugs, does one still care about them and identify with them?

I used to identify with various sports teams, and race was not a factor. The blacks were my guys as much as the whites. But as black athletes became increasingly disgusting and thuggish, that was a major factor in my losing interest in sports.

And in addition to the thug aspect, there is the fact that blacks corporately (not individually) represent a hostile and adversial presence in America. They are certainly not for us. Why should we be for them?

But in a sense I’m not qualified to participate in this discussion about whether we should root for our Olympic teams, since the Olympics as such offend me, it is has become the religious cult of the New World Order, and I have no more interest in the U.S. athletes than any others. See Marion Horvat’s article at Tradition in Action (discussed here) criticizing the pope for blessing the Olympics.

Lawrence Auster #fundie amnation.com

The way many women dress today, with half their breasts exposed, is an expression of total disrespect for men. Men are left with three possible responses. To grab the woman, which is illegal; to ogle the woman, which is socially unacceptable; or to affect not to notice the woman at all, which is emasculating. A culture that normalizes such female behavior—i.e. not only not noticing or objecting to it, but prohibiting any objection to it—is extremely sick.

Lawrence Auster #racist amnation.com

As I type, I'm glancing at some grotesque thing on ABC, about the Grinch and Christmas, in which humans interact in brotherhood with a variety of monstrous looking other species, and a little girl has a tender relationship with an unsettlingly hideous but sensitive and kind-hearted being called the Grinch, and everyone loves each other. This is not our society celebrating the beautiful holiday of Christmas. This is the Liberal Controllers of our society carefully teaching children an unnatural and dangerous lie that they would never believe unless they were carefully taught. How many whites will militate against vitally necessary immigration restrictions in the decades to come, how many young white females will be raped and murdered by nonwhites in the decades to come, because of the message of trusting and loving racial aliens that programs like this implant in them?

Ben W. #fundie amnation.com

"Paramedics say Charla Nash, 55, lost her nose, eyes and jaw as the crazed simian ate her alive in the driveway of her friend's Stamford, Conn., home Monday." [Daily News.]

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Perhaps, from a transcendent perspective, the chimp tearing the woman's face off was NOT AN ACCIDENT. Might it be God showing us in a very real way what happens to our human identity, our eyes and our face when the animal defines us? Notice when this incident happened--right at the time the media was full of celebration for Darwin's "birthday." Accidental? Think about it ...

Mary K. #fundie amnation.com

[reacting to a news story on the evolution of cetaceans from land animals]

This is too funny. Just how much longer are we seriously to tolerate these "scientific" buffoons before we all start laughing hilariously? At some point all this become ludicrous, no? Consider the stupidity at which we have arrived. We can't accept that God created the deer and he created the whale. No, the deer appeared and then turned into a whale while staying a deer (yes I know I'm simplifying).

Lawrence Auster #fundie amnation.com

Not to see Pleasantville as a leftist hate attack on Middle America is an extreme but predictable example of what I'm talking about. It shows how liberal tropes, such as the sexual and spiritual deadness of Americans in the Fifties, or rather of all humanity before the Sixties, are not considered as propagandistic but as simply true.