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CaptainShuddup says

What I don't like is this Uniculture of confused misguided souls that has no heritage, tradition, values, or identity. With all of this missing from everyone regardless of race, the world is loosing a lot more than a few John Earl's in East Mississipi.

All of those things are missing in this modern Uniculture.

Regardless of race or culture those things were always present, and universally across the board. The only thing that changed was the attire for the occasions and the decorations.

With this Uniculture people wont know their boundaries, or respect for any implied boundaries. We'd all be no good sons of bitches no better or worse than each other. But more importantly lack the home upbringing to know the difference.

Let me get this straight.

You respect all races and cultures, but you don't want everyone else to have your insights, lest the people start mixing with each other and mating with each other, causing us to lose the beauty that comes from people being more different from eachother.

So you're nostalgic for the past. Is that it ?

I have a few thoughts on this.

1) as the world gets smaller and more mixed, as a very natural phenomenon, individual cultures recede to some extent, but people are not going to be all the same anytime soon.

2) Centuries before everyone in the world looks sort of like columbians or whatever, and long before strong cultural differences disappear or meld together, there are bigger problems that have to be addressed.

These include things like overfishing the oceans, global warming and pollution, and avoiding war.

I say lets figure out how to stabilize things and live in a sustainable way on the planet, and get along with eachother (these are problems of the next century or two) - before we get worried too much about the downside of us getting along too well.

The latter I can live with, and is much further off in the future (millenia). Actually both are way outside of our lifespan, so as a right winger I'm surprised you care.

If you're talking about some kind of uniculture that you percieve to already exist, in the US, then I don't see what you're nostalgic for.

Even if we had no immigrants other than European, the cultural phenomenon you speak of would have occurred. I don't particularly celebrate the Irish half of my ancestry. The other half of my ancestors go way way back in the U.S., but still European if we go back far enough, and are not anything I celebrate or really even know clearly.

What is the beautiful American culture that's going to be lost ? Is it some puritanical practices from a couple hundred years ago ? Or are you taking a snapshot at the time of the fifties chevy and John Wayne ?

We've always been a "melting pot." And that's beautiful. IT's the only reason you have as much experience with different cultures and respect for different cultures as you do.

Hey it's the modern consumer culture that will accelerate the global destruction of resources. Don't kid your self.

Who do you think knows what's best to conserve Louisiana swamp ecosystem?
The Twitterverse or the dumb ole Rednecks living there?

Who do you think is more responsible for overfishing the gulf.
Captain Marcel Bouchette or Tom Hank's international notoriety as Forest Gump?

I'm not a right winger, but I am conservative when it comes to pro family issues, and people's rights to tradition, and preserving their heritage and culture.
Where that doesn't include getting rid of anyone who is not just like them.

Yes people would get along if we respected each others differences rather than trying to homogenize everyone into this hypoallergenic socially sterile species.

And I don't know if you noticed, but we're not getting along. "Too Well".

We're going to run out of Big Macs eventually and then all hell's going to break lose, when the effects of Globalization wears off.

CaptainShuddup says

Who do you think is more responsible for overfishing the gulf.

Captain Marcel Bouchette or Tom Hank's international notoriety as Forest Gump?

Neither, it's the free market, our high population, and demand for shrimp. I'm not blaming people for wanting to eat fish, and I'm not really blaming the fisherman. There is no nice solution. We could limit the size of nets or the size of fishing enterprises. Regulations are necessary, but they would raise the price of fish. If we cause the price of fish to go up enough to lower demand, then it's government interfearance and its unfair to the poor who can't afford to pay more for fish. But it might be the only way we make the fish population ssustainable.

Of course it gives the whining haters such as yourself another thing to complain about. Like I said. THere is no nice solution.

Most of what you say has no reasoning or logic behind it. You're very creative at connecting disjoint phrases to these random feelings you have, but most of it doesn't make much sense.

marcus says

Neither, it's the free market, our high population, and demand for shrimp.

I take it you've never been to one of the Hundreds of Buba Gump seafood restaurants? These just are your average quaint out of the way simple eateries. These places are strategically placed, anywhere there is a Theme park, large busy upscale shopping mall or waterfront.

They have over 1200 seats, and have a line out the door from the time the open to the time they close. Oh sure you can cop out and say "Free market" and all that if you want too.

In 2010 the shrimp harvest from the gulf was 177 million pounds valued at $340 million dockside (meaning discounted wholesale value).

It looks like there are about 40 of those Bubba Gump restaurants. I doubt they account for more than about 3 million pounds of that shrimp harvest. Probably way less, because even though their name is bubba gump, everyone is not eating shrimp there.