Third-Worldizind the U.S.

“It is said that there are three kinds of people. People who make things happen. People who watch things happen. And people who say, “What happened?”” The third group are always considered to be ignorant about thing going on around them, like immigrants issue about which conservatives preferred to keep calm and do no take side.


Liberals began a campaign to create a permanent Democratic voting bloc for themselves by letting the Third World immigrants to migrate to America. They reached their goal on elections; the Third World immigrants mostly would vote for liberals.

The examples that we would like to focus on are related to Hispanics. First, the overall Hispanic vote constitutes only about 6% of the U.S. electorate. Second, naturalized Hispanics constitute about 28% of the whole Hispanic vote. And third, in exit polls in 2004 only 27% of all Hispanic voters called themselves Republicans. In other words, out of every 1,000 U.S. voters, only about five are immigrant Hispanic Republicans.
Some Republicans claim that Bush received 40% of the overall Hispanic vote in 2004. But that just makes only 2.4% of the total U.S. electorate, to get that he had started pro-Hispanic and anti-conservative proposals in January 2004.
By the way, here the focus is on liberal campaign to fill America with Third World immigrants.

Until the 1960s, US immigrants belong to Americans having family origins in a given country. Because most Americans had family origins in Western Europe, most immigrants went to Western Europe, thus a great number of immigrants helped America’s historic culture. Liberals followed Jim Crow laws and decided to change immigration laws, although most European immigrants of that time did not deserve to be condemned for the plight of blacks in the South. It is important to mention that Europeans were angry of the segregation in the South America. They amended the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act in such a way that it prevented immigration from Europe and unstrained immigration from elsewhere, and doubled the immigration ceiling of each year, from 150,000 to 290,000 annually. Thus, Third-worldizing America started.
By approving the law in 1965, a senator promised Americans that they do not like to import indigents to US. The immigration system practiced today is the product of further liberalization, by Kennedy and others, of the already-liberal 1965 revision. Ridiculously, that senator was extremely wrong in his claim; “America is indeed flooded with a million immigrants annually. In 2005, the number was 1,122,373. And those are who came legally. God only knows how many illegal aliens came.” And “America is indeed inundated with immigrants from the most populated and deprived nations. At least 75% of today’s immigrants are from the Third World. Nothing needs to be said about illegal aliens.” The total immigration from Third-world has been more than 20 million since 1965. the point that signifies here is that most immigrants of developing countries support politicians who believe in social program, namely Democrats and immigrants of developed countries more likely are in favor of conservatives.
Undoubtedly, immigration from Third-world countries will have impacts and one of the most clear evidences is the language in US. Evidence from the 2000 census:
Third World Languages In U.S. HomesTen most common, and number of speakers

Hispanics have the highest population in US and poverty among them is higher than average US national poverty. Despite these statistics, some Republicans support the Senate’s “comprehensive” immigration bill in May.
Here rise some argument, why are Third-world culture considered as less developed?! One probable answer that people disagreeing immigration of Third-world people say is that if the Third-world culture were strong enough, they would have served its people inside their own territory, thus it is not be acceptable even among their own people, and they come to US seeking for a new culture.

Third-world population, especially Hispanics, is swelling America’s population. It is true; they are certainly a threat to US culture (if we consider American culture as the best and unique culture in the world), to US economy and US politics- if actively being involved in elections. But it is not justifiable to devalue other cultures and language that are growing in US. What is evident is that Third-world cultures are not less valuable that European cultures that once constructed American culture.

US Hispanics embracing Islam

US Congress in 1968 for the first time designated the week of September 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Week. But in 1988 that was amended to make it a whole month, thus at the moment Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 through October 15. Having such a month seems necessary for a country like United States having a great number of Hispanics spreading over the states.
President Bush's insistence to fence the US- Mexico border in order to prevent illegal immigration of Hispanics from Mexico to US during this period signifies the importance Hispanics and generally immigration has to US government. The total cost of this 700 mile fence is estimated from $2 billion to $9 billion. However, US government is disregarding Mexican officials' grievances of this issue. “The Mexican government expresses its strong rejection of the construction of the wall ... This decision damages the entire bilateral relationship, is contrary to the spirit of cooperation that must prevail to guarantee the security of the frontier," Mexican presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar. The news raised lots of controversies inside and outside US; border communities, religious groups, advocates and lawmakers were among serious opponents inside the country. "Critics have also argued that it would make the border more violent; would force illegal immigrants to take more dangerous routes through the desert; would harm trade and relations with Mexico; and still wouldn't solve the problem of illegal immigration."

Simultaneous to this news, another issue came up regarding Hispanics in US which I was always concerning about. The news was published in New Mexican website on October 6, claiming that the number of Hispanics leaning to Islam is increasing. It explains the life of a Muslim Hispanic who was born in Colombia and is now living in US. The population of Hispanic Muslims has increased 30 percent to some 200,000- although it is still very few in comparison to the number of Christians in US- since 1999, estimates Ali Khan, national director of the American Muslim Council in Chicago. This growing trend to Islam by Hispanics may be assumed as a consequence of 9/11 terrorist attacks and also the collision between two burgeoning minority groups, means Muslims and Hispanics. It is important to notice that there are several similarities in faith between Hispanics and Muslims such as family- orientation, being religious, poverty, health care and issues regarding immigration.
The previous ruling of Muslims in Spain can not be ignored as a crucial reason for this tendency of Hispanics to Islam. Ihsan Bagby, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky indicates: “Many Hispanics … who are becoming Muslim, would say they are embracing their heritage, a heritage that was denied to them in a sense." Another point to be mentioned is that the number of Hispanic Muslim growing is very high in New York, Florida, California and Texas, where Hispanic communities are largest. The number of Hispanics attending mosques is ascending gradually, the need for Spanish books especially Koran is a reasonable proof for this claim.

Hispanics as a very significant and influential minority in United States bear a very important role in coming US elections, both Congress election in 2006 and 2008 presidential elections. Among the total registered people of voting, more than 2.7 million voters have Hispanic surnames, an increase of about 560,000 since 2002. Of the 85,000 additional voters this year, about 77,800 were people with Hispanic surnames, Williams' office reported. It is interesting to know that for example there are about 8 million Hispanics in Texas, and of those 3.4 million are eligible to vote, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
To conclude the discussion of Hispanics, their intention for Islam and Hispanics' role in political decisions by voting, I would like to conclude that a country like Iran which is facing severe conflicts with US should be clever enough to make use of these conditions; current dissatisfaction of Hispanics of US government, Hispanics' inclination to Islam and their role in US elections. Iran is said to be a driving force in preaching Islam, thus it should equip itself with qualifications that grant it opportunities to be able to contact Hispanics in States and direct them more to Islam. In this way, Muslims and Hispanics can unitedly protest for unjust rules treated to them since earlier this year, Muslims joined Hispanics in marches nationwide protesting immigration-reform proposals they felt were unfair. Islamic Republic of Iran can build a constructive relation with the Latino American Dawah Organization, established in 1997 by converts in New York City and increase its policy supporters inside the land of US. One of the ways by which Iran can improve its relation with this center is to hold joint conferences and research projects.

References:
- www.bbc.com
- http://magic-city-news.com
- www.star-telegram.com
- www.newmexican.com

A Report on Hispanics in the United States

Everybody has certainly heard of Hispanics. Who are Hispanics? Where have they come from? What do they do in the United States?
People having a Spanish ancestry, speaking Spanish in Latin America or the settlers of the Southwestern States of America which is held by Spanish are called Hispanics. Hispanics are etymologically taken from Hispania, a name used by Romans for today's Spain and Portugal and historically it is only applied for Spain and everything related to it. The word Latino synonymously used for Hispanics. Hispanic is a general term and some people prefer be called Latino to indicate that they do not belong to Spain. It is interesting to notice that they are called Chicano in some part of States like Arizona and California. Hispanics were referred to as "Spanish-Americans", "Spanish-speaking Americans", and "Spanish-surnamed Americans" but these definitions were not precise enough.

Hispanics are considered as the largest majority in US even surpassing Blacks in US. Their population in 2004 according to US Census Bureau was 41.3 million, which is about 14.1% of the whole US population. Growth rate of Hispanics was estimated during July 2003 to July 2004 as 3.6%. Hispanic population will reach to 102.6 million in 2050, 24% of US population. Excessive immigration, both legal and illegal, and birth rate are the most considerable factors of this population growth. Undoubtedly, this great number of people will change items of life style in a country.

The distribution of this large population around the US is not equal. The majority of Hispanics reside in the Southwestern United States, mainly California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. New York and New Jersey are Northeastern states having Hispanic population living in them. New Mexico contains the majority of Hispanics in States, 43%, following to that are California and Texas with 49% of Hispanics. Los Angeles seems to be the county with the highest Hispanic population. Moreover, It is necessary to mention that there are very few immigrants from Spain. They prefer to identify themselves Hispanics rather that their dependence over a specific origin.

As the other people living in US, Hispanics have an active role in political decisions mostly significant in presidential elections. Democrats are generally more acceptable and favorite among Hispanics. Political leanings differ place to place among Hispanics; Cubans and Colombians adore conservative ideologies thus they support Republicans while Mexican and Dominicans support Democrats and as the latter group are far more in number that the former, Democrats are holding a better position that Republicans. George W. Bush exalts the Hispanics' interest in Republicans which has been proved in the researches done in the last three presidential elections in US. Nevertheless, the Democrat John Kerry won Hispanics 58-40 over Bush. Western American- California- favors Democrats and Texas and Florida go for Republicans. Bill Richardson is the first Hispanic governor since 1986. They have 23 members in House of Representatives.

Pop culture and language vary from one Hispanic community to another. They are whether monolingual Spanish or English Spanish bilingual or some use Spanglish. Hispanics own numerous media productions ranging from giant commercial networks to daily periodicals. Univison is the largest Spanish-language television network in United States.

Hispanics encircle diverse racial population; some Hispanic identify themselves as Whites or Blacks. They normally have dark hair and eye with brown and tan skin, between whites and Amerindians and blacks. It is important to be stated that a great number of them know themselves as mestizo, mixed European and Amerindians, from German, French or Spanish ancestors. The dominant religion in Hispanic community is Christianity, especially Catholicism brought by Spaniards to the New World and then to Latin America. There are also people of other religions like Protestants, Jews and few numbers of Muslims, mainly newly converted Muslims. Various kinds of Folk, dance and cuisine can be found among Hispanics. The most favorite music is the Latin music. It may be interesting to know that the Mexican American music- tejano music- had impacts on rock and jazz music in US.

This large growth of population in United States had and will have impacts on American culture and identity as mentioned by Huntington in his book. Today, serious disputes and arguments are on table to decide about the immigration of Mexicans to US and both parties are in favor of it. In my next post, I will focus on this identity change and the US government decision over this controversial issue.