Quoting: guest02, Post #72
Are you saying we should marry someone based on hair color and eye color or based on culture and ancestry?
Culture and ancestry first, but the two go hand in hand. Don't they? When you think of a dude in lederhosen, do you think of a typical Japanease guy or typical German.
Quoting: guest02, Post #72
What about two people of the same race who have different hair and eye color?
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Quoting: guest02, Post #73
Should the lighter Jews refrain from marrying the darker ones to preserve light hair, light eyes for the future?
No the lighter people should not refrain from marrying the darker people of similar cultures. The problem is the extremes. The complete dilution of a groups culture and identity.
Its not the end of the world if 2% of foreigner's mix in Poland. What I do care about is if 10 million foreigners show up and the original Polish population drops to 20 million. There is no way that won't have an effect on Poland's culture and national identity. Poland is still mostly Polish, I think the Poles should think about whether they need to follow the model of other Western Countries. Lets not get crazy with inviting in the entire world. The Swiss have a better model.
These aren't new concepts. 1 in 10 swedes are now muslim. The rest of the country is asking itself what it means to be a Swede. In London there are more people registered as muslims, then in the church of england. English are asking themselves why the goverment is allowing such immigration. Read these blogs and the news!
Shouldn't we preserve our culture and identity? I guess this comes down to values. It seems like you all think happiness and complete social freedom are the most important.
I think we have a duty to the past and to the future. How many Poles died fending off the Teutonic Knights? How many died fending off the Bolsheviks? How many defending Poland from Germany and Russia and Turkey and Sweden!
These wars were not only over culture, but over national identity as well. The German's wanted to erradicate the slavs.
Have all these people died so that we, as Poles, can throw our national identity and culture as slavs into the melting pot of the races?
I don't think so, it makes no sense to me. Its like putting out an arson's fire in your house, so you can set it on fire yourself later.