AN Asian reader writes:

I feel a sense of helpless dread after reading that five million illegals are going to be given legal status next week at the stroke of a pen. I am a new citizen who did everything correctly.

— Comments —

Brad writes:

I’ll bet my last dollar most of those 5 million live in swing states.

Pan Dora writes:

My sincerest sympathies to a new citizen who did things legally. This proposed amnesty is a slap in the face to him and the millions of others who waited their turns and followed our laws.

Kidist  Paulos Asrat writes:

At the cost of sounding callous, I’m afraid I don’t have much sympathy for the Asian who commented on your post about Obama’s amnesty.

The commenter sounds male, although female is likely albeit less so.

I think he’s male because I don’t think Asian females would sound so victimized. So for all purposes I will write as though he is male.

He sounds like he’s sorry for himself. He’s put himself in the victim’s role. It was he who made the difficult and risky decision of leaving his country to come to the U.S. and try his luck. No one pulled him here. All Asians know how CULTURALLY different the U.S. (Canada and Europe) is. My very good Korean friend in university never got used to Americans, and she ended up being a “victim” and complained all the time about “whites.” Now I realize how progressive she was. She did her research on a leftist, Third World angle, saying many times that the world’s poverty was due to American foreign policy. She seemed to think that the world, and all those malnourished of the world (she was doing her PhD in Nutrition) were OWED by America.

I’m not saying your correspondent is like this. He doesn’t sound nearly as sophisticated. But, he seems to be saying that because he “did everything correctly” he is owed something. Why?

Lawrence Auster used to talk about the perils of LEGAL immigration. That if people came from backgrounds and cultures incompatible with the Western, Judeo-Christian, American culture, then they will feel alienated. I have done blog posts on Asians (often males) in universities, who are actually asking for some kind of affirmative action conditions because they feel that they are at a disadvantage. I’ve also done articles on Asians cheating in universities to get their grades up, and that the high-achieving Asian is more complex and often more of a myth (their excellence drops off at some point, and at some instances).

And, on the other had, Asian females may not sound so victimized, but they are no less alienated. The materialistic nature of females kicks in with them, so they go for the cultural elite, the white male. I really think that in large part this Asian female/white male pairing  is that white males have been abandoned by their feminist white females, so they go for the next best thing, and Asian females are clever enough, and feminine enough, to take great advantage of this.

So, to your Asian correspondent, I will ask him why he came to the U.S., how he feels about his social/economical/career status now, who he voted for (and why – often Asians vote Republican for economic reasons, because they do have some wealth – although I think that has been over-touted also – they don’t want to give it away in a welfare state), and if he has an Asian girlfriend or wife.

David J. writes:

For quite some time, I have tried to hold my proverbial tongue about the opinions of Ms. Kidist Paulos Asrat concerning Asians, but her post above is about all that I can take of her seemingly undeserved criticisms of this human group. Firstly, how can such a short, innocuous, and commonsensical comment made by a lone Asian reader warrant such a lengthy diatribe by Ms. Asrat, an Ethiopian immigrant in Canada? The Asian reader has dutifully obeyed our immigration laws and is disheartened that admitted lawbreakers will unjustly receive the same reward of American citizenship as he. Were he white or Hispanic, would Ms. Asrat have taken him to task for such a simple expression of despair over an obvious injustice?

Further, I have read her unreasonable criticisms of an Asian Christian woman named Jessica Rey. What are Mrs. Rey’s wrongs?

•She sells relatively modest swimsuits (are such not needed to combat the whorish swimwear of today or should women avoid the water entirely?).

•She runs her own business, even though she has a husband and children (did not the Bible’s model of a virtuous woman in Proverbs 31 diligently work to sell linens and handle commercial affairs while simultaneously fulfilling her wifely obligations to her family?).

•Her clothing merchandise is more expensive than the counterparts at Sears and Walmart (is such not expected from small businesses that cannot capitalize on the economies of scale and bulk distribution networks of large conglomerates?).

•If I remember correctly, Mrs. Rey posed while pregnant in a tank top with her husband on a website (why were the white wives on the selfsame website, some of whom were nude, not also heavily criticized by Ms. Asrat?).

•She married a white man (did not Moses marry one of Ms. Asrat’s fellow Ethiopian kinsmen, a marriage that in Numbers 12 was defended by God himself when his sister, Miriam, spoke against it?). Let me hurry to qualify that I am not a proponent of mass interracial relationships.

I even recall Ms. Asrat’s complaining about a white family’s Asian nanny who took the young white son to a McDonald’s restaurant! What a crime against humanity and affront to Western civilization is the world’s most popular white-owned restaurant! I unfortunately cannot find a link to that particular piece, so I am open to correction and gladly extend my apologies in advance if my recollection is off-base.

Of course, I welcome critical viewpoints about all human groups when the shoe fits: blacks regarding violent crime rates, whites concerning liberalism, East Asians concerning academic testing improprieties, Australian Aboriginals regarding alcoholism, Arabs concerning Islam, and so forth. In the words of Steve Sailer, “criticism makes you better.” However, the quickness by which Ms. Asrat interjects to reproach Asians and virtual refusal to allow a positive comment about them to go unchallenged appear unseemly and biased, especially with regards to a group of people with the lowest crime rates, highest intelligence (save Ashkenazi Jews), and lowest illegitimacy rates. Of course, by “Asians,” I gather that the chief focus is on East Asians.

Nov. 21, 2014

Laura writes:

My response was delayed due to illness.

The Asian invasion of Canada, and the West in general, through legal immigration is one of Miss Asrat’s subjects and she has the courage to point out the drawbacks. You have trivialized her serious concerns and her intuitions about cultural change.

You write:

Were he white or Hispanic, would Ms. Asrat have taken him to task for such a simple expression of despair over an obvious injustice?

You suggest here that there are no difference between any of the races. Given that Miss Asrat’s concern is the cultural transformation of the West, just as the Chinese would be concerned if they found themselves a minority in their own country, she is right in seeing that different races create different cultures. The fact that Miss Asrat is Ethiopian only bolsters her case. She wants stability in the West. She wants it to preserve its own even though her roots are in Africa.

As for Jessica Rey, she was discussed at length in previous posts (see here and here). No, she does not sell modesty and her work is hardly that of the Biblical woman tending her own home and farm.

Laura continues:

Miss Asrat responds here.

David J. writes:

Allow me to reply to your response.

You wrote, “The Asian invasion of Canada, and the West in general, through legal immigration….”

I hate to argue semantics, but I disagree with the characterization of legal Asian immigration to Western countries as an “invasion.”  “Invitation” would be a more apt word because the leaders of white nations have purposely established race-neutral policies towards immigration and allowed numbers of Asians to become legal residents and naturalized citizens.  We are not talking about Attila and the Huns, the Bantu Expansion, the medieval Mongol hordes, or illegal Hispanic immigration to the United States.  If I knock on your house door, and you consent to let me in, am I invading your house?

You also said, “You suggest here that there are no difference between any of the races.“

You know well from my previous emails and posts that I am knowledgeable of racial differences.  My complaints about her had nothing to do with any doubts of race realism and its ramifications, but with the irrationality of her criticisms towards Asians.  If Ms. Asrat publishes my rejoinder, you can read my further points about that matter.

You mentioned, “Given that Miss Asrat’s concern is the cultural transformation of the West, just as the Chinese would be concerned if they found themselves a minority in their own country, she is right in seeing that different races create different cultures.“

I am a student of Steve Sailer and Lawrence Auster and regularly read Thinking Housewife, Unz Review, Conservative Treehouse, and similar sites.  The integrity of Western culture and the future of the race who created it is a huge feature of my thought process.  Why else would I frequent those sites?  I, my father, his father, his father before him, and his father going back several centuries were all born in the West.  It is all I know.

If the West dies, I die.

My only way of communication is through a Western language (English), my Christianity was delivered to me through Western channels and church traditions (early Catholic councils, the King James Bible, Methodism, Calvinism, American evangelical Protestantism), my educational background is entirely Western in origin, my political viewpoints were wholly shaped by Western thought (government by the consent of the governed, checks and balances, constitutionalism, due process), my daily conveniences were invented by Westerners (computer, central heating and air conditioning, smart phones, microwaves, modern medicine), ad infinitum.  No further evidence is needed to prove my pro-Western bona fides.

Of course, in order for the West to have continuity, it needs to remain overwhelmingly white (for those countries that are not already entirely white).  Thus, I have never argued for increased non-white immigration, legal or illegal.  However, if a person uses unreasonable points to criticize or appears too quick to find fault in a group, should we allow such to go uncontested?  Again, if Ms. Asrat publishes my reply on her blog, hopefully you will understand my viewpoint more clearly.  A person can disagree with Ms. Asrat without his scoffing at all her concerns about Asian immigration.

 Laura writes:

I can’t respond to all of your points at the moment, but I would like to address your point about using the word “invasion” with regard to legal immigration. I would say it is still fair to characterize it as an invasion even though it is caused by the governments of the West.

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