Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I thought in large part that had already taken place. The hushed secret > that is really no secret at all is that Europe's culture has already > been irreversibly altered by emigration. It can be argued whether that's > good or bad, but it's hard to argue against what anyone can see with his > eyes: parts of France look as much like Turkey as France. Same with > England and Italy. And since the birth rate of Europe is still > declining, it's only a matter of mathematics before most of Europe's > historical past becomes just that, history. > > Allan Jeesh Allan tell me some news that isn't at least 2000 years old! Parts of Britain (and France and Germany) once looked like Rome.. The Celts came, the Angles and Saxons came, black immigrants (and/or slaves...) have been coming to Britain and Spain for hundreds of years (indeed, black people came to Britain with the Roman Legions - some stayed). Oh, there were the Vikings and many others. Huguenots settled in Britain. So did Jews, as they did in France. Moors controlled and influenced much of Spain, especially in terms of racial makeup, as well as architecture and so on and so on. Many Europeans see it as the ongoing movement of history, not as something to be resisted, because it's what we came from. My own makeup from the North of England is part Celt, part Viking and a good portion Anglo-Saxon.. I grey up around and went to school with lots of Indian and Pakistani kids, as well as ones from the Caribbean. So what - They considered themselves as English as I am tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html