Yeah, I did know that. I was just trying to point at silly wingnut obsessions globally.

I’m pretty sure “Reconquista” is the Ay-rabs conquering Eurabia, Mike.

It’s the other way around, actually. “Reconquista” is the historical period where the christians wiped the muslims out if the Iberian peninsula.

Que?

That’s really a difficult thing to describe. Biculturalism is, well, just there. And not there. But Maori/Pakeha relations can’t be compared to, say, African American/European American relations in the States; the history and context is just, different.

You could try getting ahold of James Belich’s _Making Peoples_, a very readable book.

A guy who teaches Japanese, a guy who lives in Mexico, and a guy who spent 30 years in Africa voluntarily? Sound like some really bad White supremacists to me (unless by Africa he means “South Africa during apartheid,” at which point that guy may be given a pass).

we don’t actually believe there’s an actual organized plot to take California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas back into the motherland. Oh, but it doesn’t matter if there is, Mike! As our AmRen friends have shown us, the brown folk are unsuited to maintaining the Western success of those states, so they will fall back to whitey eventually, even without reverse outbreeding.

Well, unless they convince the Asians to maintain the mainframes for them…then there may be a delay in the collapse of Aztlan.

God, even snarking about these people makes me ill. I do love “angry, out breeding, and far too fabulous”, though.

It may be referred to that way, but as a resident of a state that was forcefully wrested from Mexican control back in the day (California), I’ve heard mutterings about the Reconquista and Aztlan my whole life.

The difference between most residents of California and a nutjob like Lou Dobbs is we don’t actually believe there’s an actual organized plot to take California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas back into the motherland.

But the political value of those words and ideas has kept one hell of a lot of rightwing politicians in office…

The Eurabia thing is another exaggerated myth altogether…

As far as “miscegenation” (a word I really hate to use), the large influence of Latinos makes having mixed parentage pretty common. And since most of the Latinos in California can trace their roots to Mexico, where there has been and still is a lot of Native American influence and genes, its pretty interesting.

On the coast there are also large and vibrant Asian communities, and a lot of mixing goes on there too.

So many of us are pretty mongrelized from the get-go. (I’m primarily European, with a dash of Native American for extra flavor…)

I’m pretty sure “Reconquista” is the Ay-rabs conquering Eurabia, Mike. Isn’t the Evil Mexican Horde heading north referred to as “mongrelization”?

But, you know, take it from someone who lives in a country where miscegenation is a fact of life - it’s absolute hell. You hae no idea how terrible it is. Why, our crayon sets have dropped “flesh” colour entirely…