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@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I have no doubt that many Muslim immigrants would enjoy a more liberating lifestyle. Hell, even the

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re it comes." Some roads, you just don't travel down. From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted

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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I have no doubt that many Muslim immigrants would enjoy a more liberating lifestyle. Hell, even the 911 terrorists watched porn, took drugs and went to strip clubs. Can't get any more liberated and western than that! Even Osama

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ful "transplanting" into a knew culture. From: feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 8:30 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?   Cultural diversity is overvalued, in my opinion. Th

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2015 9:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?   Iowa used to be one of the whitest states in the Union, I believe, and it still is, but there has been an increase in the number of Hispanics here. In Iowa City, one of the big stores (is it Lowe's, perhaps -- can't remembe

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eel nationalistic or patriotic. From: feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 8:30 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? Cultural diversity is overvalued, in my opinion. The common denominator

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no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 9:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? Iowa used to be one of the whitest states in the Union, I believe, and it still is, but there has been an increase in the number of Hi

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no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 9:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? Iowa used to be one of the whitest states in the Union, I believe, and it still is, but there has been an increase in the number of Hispani

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afford it!" From: feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 9:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? Iowa used to be one of the whitest states in the Union, I believe, and it still i

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swear fealty to Allah I don't think you need to sweat it. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wh

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dLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?   The other side of the coin is that many of these immigrants, including the illegal ones, add a lot to

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Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : Bingo! I've always been interested in learning about other cultures and enjoying what they have to offer, but ther

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day, September 9, 2015 10:41 AM *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I don't think disassociating one's self from fellow countrymen or culture is important either, when adopting a new coun

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: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?  We live in the 21st century.  If there are Muslims who w

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by their cultural standards. They come here, we didn't go there. From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Woul

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com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : I don't think disassociating one's self from fellow countrymen or culture is important either, when ad

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ldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted? The other side of the coin is that many of these immigrants, including the illegal ones, add a lot to the bottom lines of the corporations that employ them. Just

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Feste, That may well be the case in Europe. But the immediate question to be answered is: would it be ethical to admit the refugees to Europe or USA as a humanitarian act to give them safe haven from the war in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East? IMO, the answer is YES. The rest of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?

I agree with what you say here, since the people concerned are refugees, and there is an obligation in such matters. However, that doesn't mean it won't lead to problems down the road. In the 1960s, Britain liberalized its immigration policies, and the result was that immigration from the Third

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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It's a funny old world, really. Germany gets some pretty tough raps for having a pretty virulent neo-Nazi movement as well as having had a robust population of real Nazis back in the middle of the last century but look at the

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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : There is potential for problems in Europe with a large influx of Muslim refugees. Muslims are not good at assimilating. Some European countries (France for example) now have considerable numbers of second- and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?

Cultural diversity is overvalued, in my opinion. The common denominator of the societies that score highest on measures of happiness are that they are culturally homogeneous. These are often small countries, like Denmark and Iceland. Multiculturalism just doesn't work very well. ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Cultural diversity is overvalued, in my opinion. The common denominator of the societies that score highest on measures of happiness are that they are culturally homogeneous. These are often small countries, like

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Iowa used to be one of the whitest states in the Union, I believe, and it still is, but there has been an increase in the number of Hispanics here. In Iowa City, one of the big stores (is it Lowe's, perhaps -- can't remember) has all its signs in Spanish as well as English. I would much prefer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Who Would Have Predicted?

There is potential for problems in Europe with a large influx of Muslim refugees. Muslims are not good at assimilating. Some European countries (France for example) now have considerable numbers of second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants who are outside the mainstream of society and