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America isnt a white country anymore

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NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
America is not a white country and it's not a black country. It's a country of mixed races. That was what it was meant to be when it was created.
SW-User
@NankerPhelge Not true at all. Immigration was originally restricted to "free White persons of good character" as per the naturalization act of 1790. The idea of the founding fathers being racial egalitarians is a myth.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SW-User Are you sure? That "naturalization act of 1790" sounds more like a myth to me. It's the first I've heard of it.
GERRI · 51-55, F
Even if so , a country of mix races as you say was its intended creation, it will not survive as a Nation of mixed or more commonly known as multi-cultural . No nation will, can or has survived that .we should strive to be the proverbial “melting pot” and not a salad bowl of cultural characteristics risticsc@NankerPhelge
SW-User
@NankerPhelge American history isn't hamburgers, CocaCola, and WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SW-User I did a bit of American history in school in the 1970s and that wasn't mentioned. It could have been made up for Wikipedia, it wouldn't be the first thing that was.
SW-User
@NankerPhelge There are hundreds of sources. It's real. You don't have to like it but it's not "made up for Wikipedia".

http://library.uwb.edu/Static/USimmigration/1790_naturalization_act.html

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/immigration-law-1.html
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SW-User All right then, why didn't I learn about it in school in 1974 or 75?
SW-User
@NankerPhelge Because school doesn't teach you everything.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SW-User Shouldn't it teach important things?
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@NankerPhelge That's the ideal, but sadly slavery, the Indian Wars, etc., kind of put the ideal on hold for a few hundred years.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@ChipmunkErnie I knew a bit about those when I was in school. But not that 1790 act.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@NankerPhelge There have been quite a few exclusions and limitations on various immigrant groups over our history. The Chinese Exclusion Act was infamous -- Chinese and other Asians couldn't become citizens until the 20th century and in many states were banned from marrying whites well into that century.
SW-User
@NankerPhelge It should. People pay enough taxes for it. Historical inaccuracies and ignorance are some of my biggest pet peeves.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SW-User Historical inaccuracies and ignorance are not my fault. Blaming the wrong person is one of my even bigger pet peeves.
SW-User
@NankerPhelge Not blaming you neccesarily. But you should still do your homework on this stuff. The information is out there and it's free 🙂