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To add some observations from Stephen Smith’s important new book The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent that I didn’t have time to fit into my review in Taki’s Magazine:
Smith is a very cosmopolitan white guy: U.S. born, grew up speaking German at home with his mother in Europe, covered Africa for decades for French newspapers like Le Monde.
One point he makes is that the old-fashioned notion of what Updike called in the 1970s “imperial backwash” or Suketu Mehta’s “We are here because you were there” is fading out. Sure, Africans from former French colonies are more likely to go to France on average than to other European countries, but that is in decline in the 21st Century. Migration patterns are getting more random and/or contingent, driven more by 21st Century economics than 20th Century colonialism.
A related pattern is that Africans from old French colonies are less influenced by French culture. The French took pride that, say, the first president of independent Senegal, LĂ©opold Senghor (1906-2001), was also a fine French poet and adept intellectualizer in the French cafe philosopher tradition. The French political empire in Africa was dead, but the French cultural empire lived on!
But French cultural influence is fading, being replaced in Africa by American cultural influence. Some of this sounds promising — such as the spread in Africa of American evangelical mega-church Protestantism, with its emphases on work and prosperity. According to Smith, however, the Texanization of African Christianity annoys the French when they show up in France. French intellectuals were expecting either Marxist radicals or pious Catholics, but instead they are getting a lot of U.S. Sunbelt prosperity gospel Protestants.
The other form of cultural Americanization in Africa is just plain depressing: rap.
Africa might wind up with a gender gap in which lots of young women see themselves as Protestant church ladies and lots of young men see themselves as hip-hop playas.
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Stephen Smith looks like Steve Grogan.
IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM NOW!
The most prosperous negroes in the world are African-Americans. For better or worse, it makes perfect sense that African-Europeans and African-Africans would imitate them.
The entire world is becoming depressingly Americanized. No proctor and gamble exec ever made it big by cutting the advertising budget.
Excellent. Woopy Golbergization and resulting clapter will be tremendous throughout Paris!
Nothing that an edict by Le PrĂ©sident de la RĂ©publique and a few Tonton Macoutes couldn’t suppress. Unfortunately, Whitey currently considers aggressive rap as a valid form of multicultural expression that has to be subsidized as nececessary because it apparently creates intercultural bonds.
However, some good rap from the 90s can stay!
Needs to be more specific. The Black-Americanization of Africa… The African-Americanization of Africa…. The Blackmericanization of Africa….
You should revisit the concept of Corruption of Blood and how it increasingly applies to land as well as money.
On Mehta’s Sontag-ian worldview:
https://www.takimag.com/article/corruption_of_blood_steve_sailer/
“One of the more striking evolutions of recent decades has been the stealth revival of the ancient concept of hereditary guilt. It’s seldom called that”€”terms such as “white privilege” and “structural racism” are more popular”€”but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll note an increasing reversion to this old assumption that the sins of the fathers demand that punishment be visited upon their distant descendants…
The causal mechanisms by which ever more distant history imposes its will upon the present might be vague (”stereotype threat?” “invisible knapsacks?”), but the delineation of Good Guys from Bad Guys becomes only more black and white. The intellectual maturity of journalistic discourse is increasingly reminiscent of Cartoon Network’s Axe Cop, a show created by a 29-year-old writer based on his five-year-old brother’s Manichaean worldview. (Axe Cop is about a Good Guy who chops off Bad Guys’ heads with an axe.)
Thus, attributing hereditary guilt to enemies is broadly appealing to humans. It fits in nicely with other popular urges such as ancestor worship and ethnocentrism…”
Typo right off the bat: “grew up speaking German with his in Europe,” presumably “family”? But put “kleine krokodil.”
I wonder what Africa’s culture would be in your “Alternative America” then Mr. Sailer.
You should do an “Alternative America Part 2” focused on culture.
https://www.takimag.com/article/corruption_of_blood_steve_sailer/
"One of the more striking evolutions of recent decades has been the stealth revival of the ancient concept of hereditary guilt. It’s seldom called that”€”terms such as “white privilege” and “structural racism” are more popular”€”but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll note an increasing reversion to this old assumption that the sins of the fathers demand that punishment be visited upon their distant descendants...
The causal mechanisms by which ever more distant history imposes its will upon the present might be vague (”stereotype threat?” “invisible knapsacks?”), but the delineation of Good Guys from Bad Guys becomes only more black and white. The intellectual maturity of journalistic discourse is increasingly reminiscent of Cartoon Network’s Axe Cop, a show created by a 29-year-old writer based on his five-year-old brother’s Manichaean worldview. (Axe Cop is about a Good Guy who chops off Bad Guys’ heads with an axe.)
Thus, attributing hereditary guilt to enemies is broadly appealing to humans. It fits in nicely with other popular urges such as ancestor worship and ethnocentrism..."Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hypnotoad666, @Ghost of Bull Moose
The creator of “Axe Cop” (the 29 year old, not the 5 year old) is now the Creative Director of the “Babylon Bee.”
Isn’t the Global Elite Master Plan for young African men to live fast die young partying with the white ho’s and bitches and gang-banging on the streets of the West, while young African women sit at home and wait for one of the 300 odd million surplus young Han men China is emigrating to Africa to come along and fork out the correct bride-price sum?
The more ethnocentric men are going to the lower ranked Oriental countries (Philippines, Vietnam etc) and picking up women. The more ambitious like to pick up Russian, Ukrainian women.Replies: @Alden
IMMIGRATION MORATORIUM NOW!Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
Agree. Well, I should write: AGREE!
In another timeline, black Americans are helping to rule over Africa as the face of our colonial administration, preventing China from acquiring a second continent, protecting the megafauna and keeping cheap materials flowing back to CONUS to feed our spaceship factories. What might have been.
https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-proposes-reparations-to-anyone-who-ever-lost-a-presidential-election-to-trump
Does any country only export the best parts of its culture? No one comes to mind…..Certainly not France (try tabulating the damage wrought by Rousseau, Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault), the USA (Hip-Hop is cultural napalm), or the UK (Dr Who is pure poison)…..Anyone have a good candidate?
But the commanding heights of UK culture have been occupied by the enemy for at least 40 years, so it's not surprising we export crap now. Dr Who used to be good, once, but they ruined it.
It's interesting that the most successful current UK export, Downton Abbey, is the creation of a conservative old school type, Julian Fellowes. Has "The Gilded Age" been broadcast yet?
* Steve's pointed the resemblances between the Highlands and the NW Frontier before. No wonder the music appeals to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8eiJCL9zB8Replies: @peterike
I’d rather fear the Africanization of America
The Bible.
My daughter was a Peace Corps volunteer in Rwanda a few years ago, with her job being to teach English. The local dictator, Paul Kagame, is relatively benevolent by local standards and is moving the country from French-speaking to English-speaking. Partially because English is the future (He was also trained at the US’s school for dictators at Ft Leavenworth), and partially because the French behaved rather badly during the Genocide.
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Does any country only export the best parts of its culture?
Maybe Russia, if you don’t consider Communism as Russian.
But leaving Communism to one side, most of Russia's cultural exports do seem to lie on the positive side of the ledger:Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov, etc.
Not a country.
Your question brings to mind the fact that the two biggest countries, China and India, which have been around for thousands of years, have perhaps exported very little of their culture. Sure, yoga, maybe, and historically, India exported Buddhism to China and the place holder number zero to the world, but aside from chop suey, lo mein and yoga, I really can’t think of anything.
And most Indian films (barring stuff made by Satyajit Ray and a few other highbrows) are utter crap.....Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Alden
Interesting point. Should Germany get the ultimate blame for Communism, with Russia merely serving as a host for a foreign parasite?
But leaving Communism to one side, most of Russia’s cultural exports do seem to lie on the positive side of the ledger:Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov, etc.
They say the next Pope will be an African, personally I cannot wait.
Well, Maoism was a fairly noxious export….
And most Indian films (barring stuff made by Satyajit Ray and a few other highbrows) are utter crap…..
If Russia gets off the hook for Communism for that reason, then conversely, should it get credit for its great ballet artistes or classical music composers?
And most Indian films (barring stuff made by Satyajit Ray and a few other highbrows) are utter crap.....Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Alden
Well, Indian films aren’t really a cultural export, because no-one except expatriate Indians watches them, so, they don’t count, even on the negative side. As for Maoism, it was perhaps the lesser export as compared to Soviet style insurrections around the world which were actively supported and aided by the USSR, even if some of them actively paid lip service to Mao. Though it is true that Maoism found a home in hearts of many a college intellectual, and the intellectual style of the Cultural Revolution is the dominant style in many of our universities’ gender and race studies departments.
Africans (American and otherwise) are just the deepest shade of redneck. If you don’t mind rednecks then that’s no big deal, but to those who loathe them as much as our soi-distant elites(sic) it means their beloved brown wave will be bringing all kinds of heartache.
Ancient Israel then.
So one guy making the case for stopping African migration into Europe is…a professor of African and African-American studies?
Wow.
If Stephen Smith manages to help convince Western governments to change course on this issue he may single-handedly justify the existence of every African Studies program on every campus ever.
It’s almost like the ending to Lord of the Rings, where the One Ring is destroyed thanks to Gollum. It is an ending every bit as shocking and awesome, with the added benefit of being real.
This isn’t really true. Two years ago the Bollywood film Dangal was a hit in China and another film Andhadhun was a hit last year. These aren’t one-off exceptions.; there have been several others going back. Actors like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan are very popular in the Middle East and South East Asia.
When I first started paying attention to illegal immigration that was one of the first things I noticed. I drove past a Hispanic guy, probably illegal, painting his house some appallingly ghastly shade of neon pink and realized that if it were a white guy doing that the Leftist snobs would be in full cackle mode. They don’t realize that the very behaviors they despise in their fellow whites they will only increase tenfold through their support for open borders. The America their open borders policy is creating doesn’t look like Portland or Vermont or the Hamptons. It looks like a bad hybrid of the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia. They claim to want a less superstitious, higher class, more intelligent population with more refined tastes. That’s not what they’re going to end up with.
https://www.takimag.com/article/corruption_of_blood_steve_sailer/
"One of the more striking evolutions of recent decades has been the stealth revival of the ancient concept of hereditary guilt. It’s seldom called that”€”terms such as “white privilege” and “structural racism” are more popular”€”but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll note an increasing reversion to this old assumption that the sins of the fathers demand that punishment be visited upon their distant descendants...
The causal mechanisms by which ever more distant history imposes its will upon the present might be vague (”stereotype threat?” “invisible knapsacks?”), but the delineation of Good Guys from Bad Guys becomes only more black and white. The intellectual maturity of journalistic discourse is increasingly reminiscent of Cartoon Network’s Axe Cop, a show created by a 29-year-old writer based on his five-year-old brother’s Manichaean worldview. (Axe Cop is about a Good Guy who chops off Bad Guys’ heads with an axe.)
Thus, attributing hereditary guilt to enemies is broadly appealing to humans. It fits in nicely with other popular urges such as ancestor worship and ethnocentrism..."Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hypnotoad666, @Ghost of Bull Moose
Race is just a social construct . . . . which is used to impose hereditary guilt on white people.
The only thing anyone has ever copied from Mexico is Mexican food . . . which is delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUa8ZgMBRoReplies: @Reg Cæsar
The average third worlder is sexist, racist and anti-gay, so they’ve got that going for them as well.
The whole world has been contaminated by Hollywood culture, they haven’t learned from watching America rotting from within. As such we are all dying a slow death from toxic leftism.
https://www.takimag.com/article/corruption_of_blood_steve_sailer/
"One of the more striking evolutions of recent decades has been the stealth revival of the ancient concept of hereditary guilt. It’s seldom called that”€”terms such as “white privilege” and “structural racism” are more popular”€”but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll note an increasing reversion to this old assumption that the sins of the fathers demand that punishment be visited upon their distant descendants...
The causal mechanisms by which ever more distant history imposes its will upon the present might be vague (”stereotype threat?” “invisible knapsacks?”), but the delineation of Good Guys from Bad Guys becomes only more black and white. The intellectual maturity of journalistic discourse is increasingly reminiscent of Cartoon Network’s Axe Cop, a show created by a 29-year-old writer based on his five-year-old brother’s Manichaean worldview. (Axe Cop is about a Good Guy who chops off Bad Guys’ heads with an axe.)
Thus, attributing hereditary guilt to enemies is broadly appealing to humans. It fits in nicely with other popular urges such as ancestor worship and ethnocentrism..."Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hypnotoad666, @Ghost of Bull Moose
A 29-year-old with a five-year-old brother? Axe Cop is good, though.
“Some of this sounds promising — such as the spread in Africa of American evangelical mega-church Protestantism, with its emphases on work and prosperity.”
And birth control and smaller families and fewer future Africans, right?
And birth control and smaller families and fewer future Africans, right?Replies: @Steve Sailer
My guess is that Protestantism will lead to less fertility, but I don’t know.
That’s common with remarriage. Donald Trump Jr and Baron Trump are 28 years apart in age. Strom Thurmond’s oldest and youngest were 50 years apart.
From the names of those arrested, it looks like the children of African immigrants are carrying out a crime spree in Minneapolis. Utterly brutal assault on a clueless, possibly drunk, white guy. The level of pure hatred that must be involved in order to attack someone that none of these people ever likely met is sickening. I doubt this guy had any money.
The attack is brutal, but it becomes so excessive and over the top (they even ride a bike over the poor bastard) that it ends up like some macabre scene from the Naked Gun series. Each attack is more insane than the last.
How could this not be a hate crime? What would be the level of media coverage if the races in this attack were reversed?
Why did I learn about this from a UK website?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7456963/Videos-shows-gang-beat-stomp-ride-man-bike.html#comments
Look at the Freeper response to this story:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3778495/posts?page=1
All they do is talk about Somalians when the article posted there does not mention any Somalians, but does mention American blacks, who are the main perps here. Muslims are the safe whipping boy for boomer cucks who are afraid to tell the truth or just too stupid to comprehend.
To someone who eats flies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUa8ZgMBRoReplies: @Reg Cæsar
Sorry. I got a “return to admin” or something message, and this did not go through. But they did on another window. And I was not given a chance to delete the extra posts.
Consider them Mexican food cyberfarts.
In Haiti, where proper French was only spoken by the elite, American English is gaining steam.
We do popular culture very well. Of course people will imitate us.
Sadly, no. I was forced to watch several Indian pictures in grad school…A scarring experience…..
India's greatest cultural export.
https://youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmhoReplies: @Corvinus
It’s crap.
The attack is brutal, but it becomes so excessive and over the top (they even ride a bike over the poor bastard) that it ends up like some macabre scene from the Naked Gun series. Each attack is more insane than the last.
How could this not be a hate crime? What would be the level of media coverage if the races in this attack were reversed?
Why did I learn about this from a UK website?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7456963/Videos-shows-gang-beat-stomp-ride-man-bike.html#comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwXS3fiSnhAReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @ATBOTL
No it doesn’t. The names are thoroughly American black. They could be Liberian, the biggest group of West Africans in the city. The only foreign surname is Lusmbo, which could be from Ghana, Uganda, or Zambia, especially if you buy another vowel from Vanna.
“They claim to want a less superstitious, higher class, more intelligent population with more refined tastes. That’s not what they’re going to end up with.”
that’s because what they really want is to get rid of us. they couldn’t give less of a shit about the third world hordes. the horde’s only purpose is to displace us.
this is a cold civil war. the third world hordes are troops, not fellow officers.
i noticed this 30 years ago when i noticed how much disdain democrats had for fellow americans who were devout christians. making fun of their religion and treating them as distasteful and tacky at best, as rubes and superstitious hicks at worst. when it was actually the africans who were by far the biggest religious nutjobs, singing hallelujah for hours every week in church and starting off every post sports event interview with “First, I’d like to thank God.” africans have a 100,000 year history of believing in the supernatural and magic. today, the democrats simply ignore the religious practices of their allies who are 10th century barbarians from the middle east. that religion, is perfectly ok.
these people are allies with the third worlders one day a year – election day. the other 364 days, they deliberately ignore the ultra gauche behavior of their imported voters, and live as far away from them as possible. currently they’re pulling their hair out that they can’t disarm law abiding republican voting men who pretty much never go out and start shooting people with their rifles. any random shooting regardless of context is a pretext to disarm the people who they actually want to disarm.
The Chinese have cracked down on that. Partly out of racism/ethnocentric reasons, but also because there were a LOT of Han men going to Africa, getting local ladies pregnant, and buggering off. It was embarrassing, and making it hard to implement their agenda.
The more ethnocentric men are going to the lower ranked Oriental countries (Philippines, Vietnam etc) and picking up women. The more ambitious like to pick up Russian, Ukrainian women.
I say that the tide will suddenly turn to the orient… Africans with hanfu and queues and shit
In more ways than he realises, brother.
The fundamental constant of subsaharan African gender dynamic is of feckless inseminators and a matriarchal basic social unit.
This pattern is exceedingly strong and exceedingly behaviorally embedded. It always but always reasserts itself. Nothing but nothing will change it – neither religion, politics, ‘American culture’, ‘French culture’ etc etc.
They want a compliant, low-wage servant class. The rest is window dressing.
South Africans want their country back:
Nigerians aren’t targeted more than other Africans in South Africa’s xenophobic attacks but the damage is done
https://qz.com/africa/1708146/nigerians-not-hit-more-than-other-africans-in-xenophobic-attacks/
The latest music from Dublin, Ireland.
The Americanization of Africa is also visible on the streets of European capitals like Paris, where, for instance, signs in English and store names in English are increasingly common. My unhappy interpretation is that once the number of invaders reaches a certain level, the payoff for learning the culture of a country like France goes down and the payoff — not to mention the ease — of learning the global language rises. I might be wrong; certainly lots of immigrants do learn French. But is it reasonable to expect them to delve deeply into the history and culture of the country? Why should they bother? And the sad/depressing thing is, of course, that the French don’t seem to have the will to resist. Old-time French rightists have always deplored the U.S., and one of the last holdouts wrote an entertaining little book a few years ago titled “20 Bonnes raisons d’ĂŞtre anti-amĂ©ricain.” But in general the French just want to be allowed to fade away gently.
The UK used to export a lot of cultural goodies, cricket, soccer, rugby, squash (and rackets), tennis, golf (Scottish), bagpipes (ditto, though a fair few other countries also had them – but there’s nothing like hearing a Pakistani pipe band complete with tartan drapes*), Shakespeare, KJV, Christianity.
But the commanding heights of UK culture have been occupied by the enemy for at least 40 years, so it’s not surprising we export crap now. Dr Who used to be good, once, but they ruined it.
It’s interesting that the most successful current UK export, Downton Abbey, is the creation of a conservative old school type, Julian Fellowes. Has “The Gilded Age” been broadcast yet?
* Steve’s pointed the resemblances between the Highlands and the NW Frontier before. No wonder the music appeals to them.
And then of course there was the ongoing saga of Thomas the Gay Footman. And the steady doses of "you go girllll!" feminism.
So, yeah, not all THAT conservative.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
SAY WHAT? Evangelical Protestantism is pure cancer. I was was raised in this tradition and I think it’s the worst religion in history. Black Americans are proof. White Evangelicals are not hard working or prosperous compared to other whites, quite the opposite.
The attack is brutal, but it becomes so excessive and over the top (they even ride a bike over the poor bastard) that it ends up like some macabre scene from the Naked Gun series. Each attack is more insane than the last.
How could this not be a hate crime? What would be the level of media coverage if the races in this attack were reversed?
Why did I learn about this from a UK website?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7456963/Videos-shows-gang-beat-stomp-ride-man-bike.html#comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwXS3fiSnhAReplies: @Reg Cæsar, @ATBOTL
The article I read, one attacker has an African Bantu sounding name and the others have American black names. I notice boomers have a hard time calling out American blacks, wanting to blame someone else when they act up.
Look at the Freeper response to this story:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3778495/posts?page=1
All they do is talk about Somalians when the article posted there does not mention any Somalians, but does mention American blacks, who are the main perps here. Muslims are the safe whipping boy for boomer cucks who are afraid to tell the truth or just too stupid to comprehend.
>>lots of young women see themselves as Protestant church ladies <<
Teaching African students in London, I see a lot of these, but zero African hip hop playas. I don't even get Afro-Caribbean male hip hop playas – almost the only black men to make it to Uni are the worker types, although some do bring a bit of 'tude. I see a few Afro-Carib-Londoner female gangsta types, but generally the gangsta types are Ali G style South Asians pushed by their Uncle Jamal into going to Uni despite their own predilections & capabilities.
They do enjoy the sight of the cute Hapa & Caublinasian girls in their class though, even if they never get very far with them.
Yes, the African NAACP, Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson or Barack Obama will do well there.
If by “delicious” you mean utterly mediocre, uncreative yet satisfy slop with a very limited flavor palate, food which any imbecile can learn to cook and hence there is zero need for importing millions of Mexicans to give us “authentic” taco restaurants… then yeah, delicious.
But the commanding heights of UK culture have been occupied by the enemy for at least 40 years, so it's not surprising we export crap now. Dr Who used to be good, once, but they ruined it.
It's interesting that the most successful current UK export, Downton Abbey, is the creation of a conservative old school type, Julian Fellowes. Has "The Gilded Age" been broadcast yet?
* Steve's pointed the resemblances between the Highlands and the NW Frontier before. No wonder the music appeals to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8eiJCL9zB8Replies: @peterike
Indeed, but even Downton Abbey had to give us the very, very white girl who messes around with the black jazz musician, and the super rich Russian Jew imports from Odessa who nevertheless had a “woe is us, we are so discriminated against!” story, and the Jewish son marrying the nice English girl.
And then of course there was the ongoing saga of Thomas the Gay Footman. And the steady doses of “you go girllll!” feminism.
So, yeah, not all THAT conservative.
Sadly, no. I was forced to watch several Indian pictures in grad school…A scarring experience…..
India’s greatest cultural export.
Actually, it would be Kalaripayattu, the world's first martial art.
"If by “delicious” you mean utterly mediocre, uncreative yet satisfy slop with a very limited flavor palate..."
Your opinion, not fact.Replies: @syonredux
“American evangelical mega-church Protestantism, with its emphases on work and prosperity.”
I object to the principals of prosperity Protestantism; I wish it would go away here and I sure hope it stops spreading in Africa. I was immediately reminded when I read this of an old Atlantic Monthly article which I was able to find at their website and which I would highly recommend. It’s about how wishful thinking based on prosperity theology taught by Fernando Garay, an Hispanic preacher and real estate agent, to his congregation got them to buy homes and other things they couldn’t afford and what happened when the Great Recession hit:
We already have Africans in a fantasy world producing far more children than they can support comfortably. We don’t need them to think that God will reward them with riches if only they believe in him enough. We also don’t need them to tithe 10% of their pitiful incomes to their prosperity-teaching preachers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/did-christianity-cause-the-crash/307764/
India's greatest cultural export.
https://youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmhoReplies: @Corvinus
“India’s greatest cultural export.”
Actually, it would be Kalaripayattu, the world’s first martial art.
“If by “delicious” you mean utterly mediocre, uncreative yet satisfy slop with a very limited flavor palate…”
Your opinion, not fact.
Organized crime is a good thing in your mind?
The more ethnocentric men are going to the lower ranked Oriental countries (Philippines, Vietnam etc) and picking up women. The more ambitious like to pick up Russian, Ukrainian women.Replies: @Alden
Chinese brains and cunning, E European beauty. A winning combination a super race or subspecies
And most Indian films (barring stuff made by Satyajit Ray and a few other highbrows) are utter crap.....Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Alden
I like 20 pretty girls in bright colored saris gyrating around on a white terrace against a blue sky. That’s what Indian movies are all about no?
Mexican food is the major cause of obesity. 2,500 calories a plate. I look at a Mexican restaurant and just feel my fat cells growing. It’s cheap though. Perfect for an EBT family with lots of kids specially if you use dried not canned beans and buy those 30 tortilla packs at the 99 cents store.
You are exactly right. This is an important reason why immigration is a bigger threat to countries like Hungary than it is even to Germany or France. Are ambitious African and Arab immigrants going to bother learning Hungarian? (Or Czech, or even Swedish?). No, best case is that they are going to assimilate into the global commercial culture with its materialist values, love of sensationalism and contempt for the past. Best case.
And then of course there was the ongoing saga of Thomas the Gay Footman. And the steady doses of "you go girllll!" feminism.
So, yeah, not all THAT conservative.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
Mr Fellowes has in various interviews remarked on the occasional accommodation he feels he has to make. But he’s also pointed out that a lot of the appeal of his stuff is that it harks back to a white world.
Wealthy Jews have been marrying Gentiles for ages, so that wouldn’t be odd. Herbert Leon, the Victorian financier who built Bletchley Park, had two successive Gentile wives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Leon
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The Boomers here really need to polish up their Boomerism if a 90s kid can get that one and they can’t.
Tell me about it. Even some Ethiopian Jews in Israel have adopted American black “culture”. I guess when elite opinion is that only black Americans are “authentic,” that overrides not only white culture, but all other black cultures too.
If you ordered the Mierda Especial Reserva, you got what you asked for.
Was that the commencement of the “dear boy” era?
Goodness no. My foppish affectations go back to primary school. As I recall, I was the only kid in second grade who liked wearing ascots…..
Actually, it would be Kalaripayattu, the world's first martial art.
"If by “delicious” you mean utterly mediocre, uncreative yet satisfy slop with a very limited flavor palate..."
Your opinion, not fact.Replies: @syonredux
Older than Pankration ?
Everything Mexican is crap; the only variations are in terms of color and consistency.
No, everything Mexican can be transmuted into crap, especially through the gut of a tourist with a stomach infection.