Buchanan: Decline of the Anglos

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PJB: The Decline of the Anglos

Posted By Linda On September 18, 2007 @ 1:18 am In PJB Columns | Comments Disabled

by Patrick J. Buchanan

In Russia’s Ulanovsk region, Sept. 12 is Conception Day.

Workers are given the day off and encouraged to go home and do their best to conceive a new Russian. The hope is to have a bumper crop of babies on Russia’s national holiday, nine months off.

Conception Day has occasioned much mirth and ribald humor. But for Mother Russia, the issue of her children is no laughing matter.

Two decades ago, the Soviet Union was three times the size of any of the other giant nation – the United States, Canada, China, Brazil – and the third most populous, with nearly 300 million people. Came then the great crack-up of 1990-91.

The Baltic republics – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – broke free first. Next were Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova in the west; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus; and Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia.

These amputations removed a third of the territory and half the population of the Soviet Union. Yet the remnant, Russia, remained twice as large as any other nation and still boasted a population of 150 million.

Since the 1990s, however, Russia has been losing population at a rate of 750,000 a year – not to emigration, but to death. By one count, the Russian population is down to 143 million. President Putin has predicted that only 124 million Russians will be alive in 2015. In 2000, the United Nations projected that, at its present birth rate, by 2050 Russia’s population would fall to 114 million.

In a 2005 study, the United Nations estimated that, together, Ukraine and Russia will lose 50 million people – 25 percent of their combined populations – by mid-century. The Slavs are dying out, and the geostrategic implications are enormous.

In a few decades, Turkey, which seeks entry into the European Union, will become Europe’s most populous nation. Like Xerxes’ bridge of boats across the Hellespont, Turkey will be the Asian land bridge into Europe, the Bridge of The Prophet into the homeland of the Christians.

As critical, the vast majority of Russians live west of the Urals, while east of Novosibirsk (New Siberia City), all the way to Kamchatka, the tiny Russian population is departing or dying out. Yet, in timber, oil and minerals, this is the most resource-rich region on earth. And south of Siberia lies the most populous and resource-hungry nation on earth.

American children born today may have Chinese for neighbors across the Bering Strait from Alaska.

Nor is it only the Slavic peoples who are expiring. So, too, are the native-born populations of Western and Southern Europe, as the empty nurseries of Europa fill with bawling Muslim babies.

Americans of European ancestry are also declining as a share of the U.S. population, down from near 90 percent into 1960 to 66 percent today. Anglos, as they are called now, are now minorities in our two largest states, Texas and California, and, by 2040, will be a minority in the nation that people of British and European stock built.

Last month, the Census Bureau projected the U.S. population would grow by 167 million by 2060, to 468 million.

And immigrants and their children will constitute 105 million of that 167 million. That would be triple the 37.5 million legal and illegal immigrants here today, which is itself the largest cohort of foreigners any nation has ever taken in.

With the 45 million Hispanics here to rise to 102 million by 2050, the Southwest is likely to look and sound more like Mexico than America. Indeed, culturally, linguistically and ethnically, it will be a part of Mexico.

Like Russians, Americans of European ancestry are failing to reproduce. Yet, a closer look reveals that population growth remains healthy among the religiously devout – evangelical Christians, Catholic traditionalists, Muslims and Mormons. Among the secularists, however, birth rates are far below Zero Population Growth – and the possibility of extinction looms.

One recent study found that the Jewish population in the United States fell by 6 percent in the 1990s, from 5.5 million to 5.2 million. Orthodox Jews, however, are known for families of five, eight or 10 children.

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and have dominion … over every living creature.” So reads Genesis. And so European Man once preached and practiced. But having lost his empires along with his faith, European Man no longer sees himself as commissioned by God.

Indeed, he no longer believes in God. Among our best and brightest are many whose purpose is to enjoy life to the fullest and to end it, when the time comes, as painlessly as possible.

Which seems to suit the rest of the world – China, India, Islam, Africa, Latin America – fine, as all look forward to a magnificent inheritance.

If demography is destiny, the West is finished. And, if so, does it really matter all that much who rules in Baghdad?
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[johngr]

Those slated to replace "Anglos" (a slur) and other European peoples in their homelands aren't too interested in liberty or any of the values reflected in the Magna Carta, Common Law, Viking Law, the ancient Icelandic anarchic system, Declaration of Independence or US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

 

[Corydoras]

An interesting article coming at secularism from a completely different angle is this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Goldstein-t.html

The claim is basically that secularism was the result a very unusual historical situation, and that throughout human history and in most of the world, religious values are an integral part of the way people understand life.

Perhaps secularism is a self-extinguishing phenomenon insofar as it is not welcoming toward children.

And yet indeed European cultures were the only ones to be really interested in rights. If European civilization is going to fall, it remains to the United States to uphold the concept of rights, coupled with the acknowedgement that religious values are a natural part of life.

 

[Dustancostine]

Get to having sex people....

 

[Dustancostine]

Oh and on another note. It is hard to afford kids under socialism.

 

[drednot]

This is the area where I think Buchanon tends to lose the plot.

He says "Americans" may have "Chinese" as neighbors across the straight, conflating citizenship with race. A lot of Americans are Chinese.

Few people are more enamored with the critical Western tradition of liberty than asian and european immigrants to America. As Ayn Rand said to a heckler, "I chose to live here, what do you every do besides being born?".

I work in Silicon Valley, with folks originally from India, China, France, Korea, Iceland, you name it. Yet we all watch Lost, play Warcraft, and generally appreciate capitalism, secularism and freedom.

If you only look at race and ethnicity, you miss the fact that Western philosophy is increasingly dominating the world.

 

[johngr]

No nations other than European and European diaspora ones are required to take in people of other races. "Chinese", "Japanese", et. al. still refer to the the ethny of the people who founded and reside in those nations. It is all but impossible to for anyone but a Japanese "become" "Japanese". One is struck on visiting there with the unbrokeninto vending machines in residential areas selling relatively expensive items and the lack of graffiti and other social pathological symptoms of the non-existent 2nd generation ersatz Japanese.

 

[EvilEngineer]

Yeah... idiotocracy had it right. Smart and affluent people don't breed far enough, while conversely the stupid and poor breed out the wazoo.

 

[PaleoForPaul]

This is the area where I think Buchanon tends to lose the plot.

He says "Americans" may have "Chinese" as neighbors across the straight, conflating citizenship with race. A lot of Americans are Chinese.

What does that matter? What he means is CHINA IS GOING TO TAKE SIBERIA.

Few people are more enamored with the critical Western tradition of liberty than asian and european immigrants to America. As Ayn Rand said to a heckler, "I chose to live here, what do you every do besides being born?".

I work in Silicon Valley, with folks originally from India, China, France, Korea, Iceland, you name it. Yet we all watch Lost, play Warcraft, and generally appreciate capitalism, secularism and freedom.

The Chinese government appreciates secularism, and people there play warcraft too. That has nothing to do with how demographic changes will effect the world (which was the point of the article)

If you only look at race and ethnicity, you miss the fact that Western philosophy is increasingly dominating the world.

Western philosophy, or western culture? They are two different things.

It doesn't seem to me that western philosophy is dominating the world, other than former communist countries are putting on good imitations of capitalism.

 

[ChooseLiberty]

Devolution.

The more the third world comes to the US the more the US is like the third world.

Those cultures were never based on Democracy or Freedom. If they have Democracy it's just a show like in Mexico, to cover over the fact there are a few very rich Spanish or Lebanese families ruling over millions of mestizo peasants.

Yeah... idiotocracy had it right. Smart and affluent people don't breed far enough, while conversely the stupid and poor breed out the wazoo.

 

[hmurchison]

I'm concerned with "Anglos" and their relative numbers but rather keeping the ideology of Western Civ and as fair of a commerce framework as possible clean and unsullied.

The race of the progenitor has little correlation with how effective other people can embrace the progentors creation or ideology.

You don't have to be Karl Marx to understand his philosphy, you don't have to be Jewish to understand Jesus.

Those who attempt to insert racial supremacy laced with FUD as sound politiking are being disingenous at best.

 

[Nefertiti]

An interesting article coming at secularism from a completely different angle is this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Goldstein-t.html

The claim is basically that secularism was the result a very unusual historical situation, and that throughout human history and in most of the world, religious values are an integral part of the way people understand life.

That is true. There was a time when atheism as we know it today didn't exist. I attended a lecture a couple months ago where the speaker argued that really before Judaism, and especially Christianity, the idea of religions didn't really exist in the sense that one people didn't believe their religion was right and those of others were wrong. People worshipped different gods but they didn't regard those different gods as not existing.

 

[Locke_rpr]

Well, I guess I'm part of the problem. I'm not Anglo nor Saxon, but of Welsh decent... a Briton, like Arthur and his round table. I guess that's close enough. I don't hold a grudge for them taking England away from us, that was a long time ago; although, the Welsh word for England does still translate as "The Lost Lands". Anyway, I'm sorry to say that I'm deliberately not having kids because I consider having children nowadays to be cruel. I don't look forward to what this country is going to be like in the next 30 years that I'll probably still be around. I sure don't want to have kids and make them suffer though what lies after that. Let the people who are keen on the direction this country have what they ordered.

 

[drednot]

....
The Chinese government appreciates secularism, and people there play warcraft too. That has nothing to do with how demographic changes will effect the world (which was the point of the article)

Western philosophy, or western culture? They are two different things.

It doesn't seem to me that western philosophy is dominating the world, other than former communist countries are putting on good imitations of capitalism.

Western Philosophy is dominating the world because it is superior.

Look at Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan. Do you think these people want to go back to feudalism and emperor worship? What Western Philosophy are these people rejecting? Caucasianism? While Japan and Korea have work to do with regard to ethnic tolerance, I think progress is inevitable due to the nature of capitalism. The wealthier a people get, the more they need to import cheap labor to do things they are now overqualified to do.

Ironically immigration enhances western philosophy rather than diminishes it. Immigrants come here because they believe there's something good, not evil, about what we do. They find social mobility in the West where there was none at home. Sure some illegal proletariats coming in from Mexico are looking for free welfare (which I oppose), but most seek work.

You mention that "former communist countries are putting on good imitations of capitalism", but I'd say it's far more than a good show. Czechoslovakia, Poland, and especially the Baltic Republics are installing free market reforms that put ours to shame.

 

[apropos]

Anyway, I'm sorry to say that I'm deliberately not having kids because I consider having children nowadays to be cruel. Let the people who are keen on the direction this country have what they ordered.

Self-fulfilling prophecy, isn't it?

I think a valid question to ask would be why our forefathers bothered having children when the world was a much more uncertain place. Disease was much more rampant. You had invading armies appear over the horizon, burning your town and enslaving your people. Even one's own government could throw you in jail for no reason. Historically, 'individual rights' have been the exception, not the rule, around the world. But in spite of all that people still had children.

Things have been much, much worse in the past. I think we need more Brits and Welsh in the world. They've brought so much good to the world overall (everything from the Magna Carta to Newton to personal hygiene) that the world will be a much dimmer place without you guys. That might sound weird, but I believe this is the case. The spirit of England and Wales is only going to last as long as there are Englishmen and Welshmen to keep it going.

I hope you'll reconsider.

 

[literatim]

Western Philosophy is dominating the world because it is superior.

Look at Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan. Do you think these people want to go back to feudalism and emperor worship? What Western Philosophy are these people rejecting? Caucasianism? While Japan and Korea have work to do with regard to ethnic tolerance, I think progress is inevitable due to the nature of capitalism. The wealthier a people get, the more they need to import cheap labor to do things they are now overqualified to do.

Ironically immigration enhances western philosophy rather than diminishes it. Immigrants come here because they believe there's something good, not evil, about what we do. They find social mobility in the West where there was none at home. Sure some illegal proletariats coming in from Mexico are looking for free welfare (which I oppose), but most seek work.

They come here because we are wealthy and they are not. Not because they have some great dream of being apart of the republic or democracy. They decided that it was easier to come here an leech off the civilization our ancestor's built up instead of changing their own country. Then they whine about why we aren't dumping our wealth into repairing their homeland.

It is self destructing for us to let these people in. We are having a clash of cultures in our own neighborhoods. Multiculturalism does not work and will not work. You can't force a bunch of people with opposing outlooks on the world to get along. One side will die off and that side is those of the Western people. It is like a parasite that slowly kills off its host.

 

[drednot]

They come here because we are wealthy and they are not. Not because they have some great dream of being apart of the republic or democracy. They decided that it was easier to come here an leech off the civilization our ancestor's built up instead of changing their own country. Then they whine about why we aren't dumping our wealth into repairing their homeland.

It is self destructing for us to let these people in. We are having a clash of cultures in our own neighborhoods. Multiculturalism does not work and will not work. You can't force a bunch of people with opposing outlooks on the world to get along. One side will die off and that side is those of the Western people. It is like a parasite that slowly kills off its host.

I've got one guy telling me our culture is winning but that that doesn't matter, and now you saying our culture isn't winning.

Which "opposing outlooks" are you talking about?

Are you talking about illegals or legal immigrants?

I agree that we want americans that value liberty, capitalism and tolerance. But frankly the legal immigrants I work with exemplify these values a lot more than some of the birthright americans in the Democratic and Republican party.

Even with illegals, sure, we all see first generation types speaking broken english, watching Telemundo, and hanging on to various aspects of their home culture. But I think when you examine second generation types, they speak decent english, watch the NFL, and generally immerse themselves with the dominant culture.

I agree that spending tax dollars on trying to support "multiculturism" is counter-productive. The melting pot works on its own.

 

[cjhowe]

They come here because we are wealthy and they are not. Not because they have some great dream of being apart of the republic or democracy. They decided that it was easier to come here an leech off the civilization our ancestor's built up instead of changing their own country. Then they whine about why we aren't dumping our wealth into repairing their homeland.

It is self destructing for us to let these people in. We are having a clash of cultures in our own neighborhoods. Multiculturalism does not work and will not work. You can't force a bunch of people with opposing outlooks on the world to get along. One side will die off and that side is those of the Western people. It is like a parasite that slowly kills off its host.

How short sighted our view of history is.

 

[apropos]

But I think when you examine second generation types, they speak decent english, watch the NFL, and generally immerse themselves with the dominant culture.

That's not the case in France.

Norway is also learning the joys of multiculturalism.

Oslo rape statistics shock

Two out of three charged with rape in Norway's capital are immigrants with a non-western background according to a police study. The number of rape cases is also rising steadily.

Rape charges in the capital are spiraling upwards, 40 percent higher from 1999 to 2000 and up 13 percent so far this year.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article190268.ece

 

[Tsoman]

of course, this is assuming that there won't be some sort of mass starvation, extreme scarcity of drinking water, killer plague, or a world war.