RE: Brownshirts are marching toward a Brown America

Vox Day: As Umberto Eco pointed out in his 1990 essay entitled ''Migrazioni,'' there is a crucial difference between immigration and migration. In the case of immigration, it is the immigrant who is transformed. This was the case in historical immigrations from Ireland, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia, where the immigrating generation quickly adapted to the language and culture of its new land and the second and third generations were all but impossible to distinguish from Americans who could trace their roots back to the original colonies.

What Vox doesn't go on to explain — which, interestingly, I mentioned on the BP months ago in a discussion of the translated essay 'Migration, Tolerance, and the Intolerable' from Five Moral Pieces — is that Eco insists migration is "like a natural phenomenon: it happens, and no one can control it... Immigration can be controlled politically, but like natural phenomena, migration cannot be. As long as there is immigration, peoples can hope to keep the immigrants in a ghetto, so they do not mix with the natives. When migration occurs, there are no more ghettos, and intermarriage is uncontrollable... That's how it will be, whether you like it or not."

And an aside — Steve: ...Americans aren't fleeing to Mexico in droves.

Not yet, at least. As more Americans become less xenophobic and more familiar with Mexican culture, some of the benefits of expat living, the beauty and possibilities of life in Mexico, and how a US dollar can be stretched south of the border, you can expect to see many retirees and escapees from the American rat race take the plunge. A very close friend of mine — an American who grew up happily in Haywood County, NC — lives an enviable life in Mexico (and far from anything you could consider a "hellhole") and will most likely stay there. Rest assured, there will be many more like him in the future.