What I mean is that if you send a random group of Americans to colonise somewhere that could include people of all different racial backgrounds. Americans are generally mixed up and doesn't the Statue of Liberty have this slogan of "Give me the wretched refuse of your teeming shores" or something like that?
The rednecks are the descendants of the first pioneers. They went to America and made it great. Now you invite anyone in, and let the scum of the earth multiply in America like rats. All at the expense of the hardworking whites who are made to feel ashamed at the same time. (Straight out of The Guardian! - not!) I am all for closing America's borders.
Anyway if you send a mixed up group of so called Americans to another country to colonise it - incluing people who consider themselves Italian-American, Chinese-American, Cuban-American and don't even get along together as a community, how the hell are they going to behave when they colonise somewhere? They'd soon be fighting amongst eachother, splitting up and wanting to do their own thing. As individuals they might say they love America - but they don't have the group cohesion needed to maintain that allegeance once they have left it. Anyone who calls themself a chinese-american, italian-american, irish-american shouldn't be going to begin with. Americans of Chinese descent, Americans of Irish descent etc, would be chosen. Besides, you are assuming ethnocentrism would supercede nationalism.
The US itself is falling apart and is going to be divided along racial lines. That's what happens with a hybrid government and polyracial subjects. Not if everyone thinks of themselves as Americans first.
Refugees are bound to be grateful to the US for saving them, but they would never make a group of loyal American colonists.Norsemaiden, if everyday you predict the fall of the US, eventually, you may be right. Operative words being eventually and maybe.
But then the US is such a multiracial country now that only whites from isolated areas of southern states who never encounter the reality of the situation could really feel that they had a racial bond with the nation. That's pure conjecture and after reading some of your other posts am quite suprised you would even lay that out here. There's nothing wrong with those that are disgusted with how things are and feel like their country has been stolen from them. I agree That kind of feeling would make certain rednecks unsuitable as colonists. In fact they might be confused about just what it means to be an American in the modern day. Just some thoughts. Have I got a point or not?
