Gore: creationism OK

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>In the US, howver, "US nationality" involves a lot of
>>"undesirbales" -such as blacks, asians, eastern europeans, jews etc. which
>>would have to be be included under the rubric of a "true American" had
>>nationality been used as totalizing ideology.  Consequently, religion, and
>>more specifically christian identity which is a unique product of american
>>brand of protestantism and exludes both non-christian religions (esp. jews)
>>as well as roman catholics (hispanics, eastern europeans), not mention
>>secular humanists (mostly while folks that also need to be excluded) plays
>>the trick of defining "true Amerikans".
>
>Extremely provocative hypothesis, Wojtek. Do note that only we non
>Christian Asians are left out since everyone else can claim to be part of
>the great Judeo Christian tradition, such as it is. And I don't think we
>can make such a clean split between American nationalism and Christianity;
>they seem interpenetrated
>Yours, Rakesh

Asians in America are generally regarded as foreigners, regardless of
immigration status, also regardless of whether or not they speak
American-accented English.   Yoshie