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Letter To The Editor
Note: This letter was published in the L.A. Times on 3/2/02 as well as submitted by e-mail directly to American Patrol.
Immigrants' Impact on the United States
3/2/03
It is fascinating that political correctness has now infected even right-wing Republicans, as demonstrated in Goldberg's denunciation of Americans (e.g., Brimelow's VDARE.com) who prefer our culture to that of the Taliban, for example.
However, Goldberg is quite correct to note that it is not about race. There is a world of difference between an American black family and Somali immigrants whose women have been mutilated by barbarities now illegal in this country. (Among the many objectionable cultural practices accompanying Third World immigrants has been female genital mutilation.)
Seeing brutal cultural norms in Islamic countries has awakened many naive Americans to the fact that cultures are not all equal or worthy of respect. As a feminist, I have particular misgivings about the U.S. admitting millions of immigrants from cultures that regard women as subhuman property. I could do without such diversity.
Dana Garcia
Berkeley
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