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When you say habitat, you mean segregation dontcha? How cute. If you didn't think people could mesh culturally then how is America possible? People can blend it's alright. Miscegenation won't be our doom.
Is America still possible? With your plethora of problems I doubt it. When your minorities become majorities - which is happening soon, right? - we'll talk again.
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America isn't collapsing soon. We have economic problems based on Reagan and Bush shit policies, and lazy politicians warping cultural issues into dire clashes which is bullshit. America has no more Mexican illegal workers than it had illegal Chinese and Irish workers making the railroad. Minorities becoming majorities doesn't fucking matter unless the power relation shifts and it probably won't. Whether they're Hispanic or White it doesn't matter when they vote. Hopefully, Obama passes this healthcare reform and can start some amnesty policies. Bring on the burritos, America will adapt and blend culturally. I'm sure we'll be fine or please tell me how I am wrong.
But there is a fundamental difference between the Irish and Chinese immigrations and the Hispancization of the Southwest USA. Mexican immigrants share a massive contiguous border with their home country; thus they do not assimilate like the immigrant waves of the past where a couple generations in the immigrants would have forgotten their old tongue.
The Mexicans in the Southwest (and the Hispanics in Miami, Florida) are involved in a long and spreading process of eroding English language dominance, which I don't see being arrested anytime soon, if ever. It is quite possible for gradually growing border communities to feature Hispanics who live their whole in Spanish-speaking communities and never learn English. However, your point about power relations is still noted: I don't see the necessity to learn English in order to make a good living in the USA changing anytime soon, either.
