Showing posts with label Cultural Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Change. Show all posts

October 22, 2015

Lasting Cultural Changes To Society From Baby Boomers



Dance party: The development has gobbled up more than 20,000 acres (8,094 hectares) of pastureland, hay fields and vegetable farms in three rural counties, dominating most of the historic small towns nearby in both size and population.

[From article]
U.S. baby boomers have been on the planet for nearly 70 years, long enough to reshape almost every aspect of American life. Rock culture, consumerism and political activism are part of their legacy.
So too are the lasting changes they've made to the landscape. The modern American suburb was carved out of the unspoiled countryside around established cities to serve as the boomer nursery. As many boomers remained there to raise their own families, suburbs sprawled outward exponentially, plowing under the forests, farmland and natural habitats and covering the land with asphalt and lawn turf.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3253570/Boomers-leave-generations-imprint-U-S-landscape.html

The retirement community bigger than MANHATTAN: Florida oasis is home to more than 100,000 over-sixties and 45 golf clubs
Baby boomers are putting their final stamp on the landscape even further out of town in age-restricted communities like The Villages in Florida
At 34 square miles, The Villages is already bigger than Manhattan and approaching the size of central Paris, and it's still growing
The Villages is a self-contained exurb, a housing island sprung like an exotic fruit from rural central Florida, untethered to a city
By Reuters
Daily Mail (UK)
Published: 09:30 EST, 29 September 2015 | Updated: 09:41 EST, 30 September 2015


September 9, 2015

Europe and The Middle East Refugees




[From article]
(It is regrettable to have to say “regrettably” when talking about this, but Muslims pose a unique threat to free people everywhere.)
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Breitbart reports:
“…amidst cries for Europe to do more, it has transpired that of the five wealthiest countries on the Arabian Peninsula, that is, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, not one has taken in a single refugee from Syria. Instead, they have argued that accepting large numbers of Syrians is a threat to their safety, as terrorists could be hiding within an influx of people….”
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But there is likely another factor at play, which is hijrah, the Islamic doctrine of immigration whereby societies are overwhelmed with Muslims such that Muslims become the dominant force.
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As Robert Spencer writes in Front Page Magazine:
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This will transform Germany, and Europe, forever, overtaxing the welfare economies of its wealthiest nations and altering the cultural landscape beyond recognition….
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why is it incumbent upon Europe have to absorb all these refugees? Why not Saudi Arabia or the other Muslim countries that are oil-rich and have plenty of space? The answer is unspoken because non-Muslim authorities refuse to believe it and Muslims don’t want it stated or known: these refugees have to go to Europe because this is a hijrah.
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Daniel Greenfield, who, also writing for Front Page Magazine, describes the heart of the problem in a brilliant piece
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This is an Islamic war fought to determine which branch of Islam will be supreme. It is not a war that started last week or last year, but 1,400 years ago.
We can’t make it go away by overthrowing Assad or supporting him, by giving out candy or taking in refugees. This conflict is in the cultural DNA of Islam. It is not going anywhere.
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the two Muslim sects whose militias are murdering each other are not victims, they are perpetrators. Just because Sunnis are running from a Shiite militia or Shiites from a Sunni militia right now doesn’t make them victims.
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The refugees aren’t fleeing a dictator. They’re fleeing each other while carrying the hateful ideologies that caused this bloodshed with them.
We aren’t taking in people fleeing the civil war. We’re taking in their civil war and giving it a good home.
And then there is the matter of so much hysteria over Syrian refugees when Christians persecuted in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East have been refused entry to the United States. Where has been our outrage and where has been the world’s commitment to make sure they are given safe haven in the West?
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it’s also about the unique threats posed by Muslim immigrants – a threat no candidate appears willing to address.
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We must close our borders to Syrians and all Muslims who want to live in the United States. There’s no room at the inn. We’re all filled up with mega mosques and Muslim schools that teach hate; with Muslim Brotherhood front groups, lawfare, and creeping Sharia. With beheadings and honor killings. And prison converts. And terror training camps. And deadly acts of jihad.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/expediting_national_suicide_with_refugees.html

September 9, 2015
Expediting National Suicide with 'Refugees'
By Carol Brown

July 10, 2014

Hopey, Changey, Dreamer?


[From article]
[Obama's statement] “Palestinian children have hopes and dreams for their future and deserve to live with the dignity that can only come with a state of their own.” Alas, Palestinians were given Gaza and they turned it into Hamasistan. They teach their children to hate and kill Israelis from birth through suicide bombing. What planet is he living on to make these ridiculous pronouncements? Is there no one in the White House who understands that Palestinians will achieve dignity only when they start respecting the gift of life, not the promise of virgins in death?
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After five and a half years of Obama, evil is flourishing as the world’s barbarians recognize an America with no resolve to defeat them.
The good news is that no one listens to Barack Obama anymore.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/obamas_narcissistic_delusions_about_peace_in_the_mideast.html

July 9, 2014
Obama's Narcissistic Delusions about Peace in the Mideast
By Lauri B. Regan

July 14, 2012

Soul Mate? Unlikely. More Like a Growing Mate

[From article]
Life circumstances can sometimes also compel significant changes in personal philosophies and approaches to life. Significant traumas can completely uproot a previously established sense of trust in others and will often change someone’s personality greatly. More than half of the women who responded to my survey (The Lifestyle Poll) (a total of 633 women) reported that they’ve experienced an event that has made them a “much less trusting person than they used to be.”

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-joint-adventures-well-educated-couples/201207/the-fallacy-the-soul-mate-part-i

The Joint (Ad)Ventures of Well-Educated Couples
What it really takes to create and sustain an exceptional and lasting marriage.
by Shauna Springer, Ph.D
The Fallacy of the Soul Mate (Part I)
Well-educated people do not usually believe in “soul mates.”
Published on July 7, 2012

June 24, 2010

Cultural Change

[From article]
"What we’re undergoing right now, says Florida, is the end of that consumer-driven postwar economy and the rise of one built on knowledge work and the service sector."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jobs/out_with_the_old_jr8tkvUDhSIZmVeBjw0cJM

Out with the old
This is not just a recession. It’s a fundamental shift in how we work
By BRIAN MOORE
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:38 AM, June 22, 2010
Posted: 12:43 AM, June 21, 2010