In a place with as many squabbling nationalities as New York City, it is becoming harder to accommodate the gaggle of ethnic groups that want their specialness recognized. Schools are a major battleground, where foreigners often seek to maintain their culture rather than assimilate to American values.

On the current controversy of Muslims wanting their religious observances to become school holidays, Mayor Bloomberg sensibly noted, “When you have a city as diverse as we do, with virtually every religion known to man practiced, if we closed school for every single day there wouldn’t be any school.”

Council Member Robert Jackson of Manhattan, who is Muslim, and 12 co-sponsors introduced a resolution this year calling on the state to require that New York City students be given days off for the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr, typically in October, and Eid Ul-Adha, which falls in December this year.

“Parents have had to make a decision on whether or not to send their students to school on the holiest day of the Muslim calendar, celebrating the month of the fast of Ramadan, or to send their kids to take a test,” Mr. Jackson said in an interview. “That type of situation should not be.”

A 2004 Columbia University study estimated that 102,000 Muslim children attended city public schools, making them about 10% of the city’s student population.
[Mayor: Muslim Holy Days Shouldn't Be School Holidays, New York Sun, March 7, 2008]

That 10 percent figure is attention getting, since that is the proportion of Muslims in a country that an Israeli scholar warned against as being troublesome. Apparently that number is the tipping point in school systems as well.

LIFE can become untenable when the Muslim population of a non-Muslim country reaches about 10 per cent, as shown by France, a Jewish expert on Islam says.
[Limit Muslim migration, Australia warned, Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 16, 2007]

“Gimme, gimme,” is the first phrase every immigrant learns upon entering the foolishly generous USA, and more so with the Sons of Allah.

I was reading Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Liberal Fascism, and it reminded me that the 1969 takeover of Willard Straight Hall by armed black militants at Cornell was based on a fake hate crime–a cross had been burned in front of a black dormitory–by black militants themselves.

For example, supposedly the militants got guns to defend themselves after a cross was burned in front of one of the black dormitories and a brick was thrown through one of the windows of another. Now, decades later, it comes out that these were acts committed by the militants themselves to win campus sympathy—a foretaste of the Tawana Brawley hoax of later vintage.[The Day Cornell Died, By Thomas Sowell, Hoover Digest, 1999]

Since that time there have been a lot of fake hate crimes, to the point where it’s the first thing I suspect in cases like  the Columbia Professor who said she found a noose on her door..Sowell’s article is worth reading in full.

Hiroko Tabuchi writes in USA Today:

That’s just what the Japanese government has been counting on. A 2007 national technology roadmap by the Trade Ministry calls for 1 million industrial robots to be installed throughout the country by 2025.

A single robot can replace about 10 employees, the roadmap assumes — meaning Japan’s future million-robot army of workers could take the place of 10 million humans. That’s about 15% of the current workforce.

“Robots are the cornerstone of Japan’s international competitiveness,” Shunichi Uchiyama, the Trade Ministry’s chief of manufacturing industry policy, said at a recent seminar. “We expect robotics technology to enter even more sectors going forward.”

A little further on in the article,

The Aizu Chuo Hospital spent about some $557,000 installing three of the robots in its waiting rooms to test patients’ reactions. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, said spokesman Naoya Narita.

“We feel this is a good division of labor. Robots won’t ever become doctors, but they can be guides and receptionists,” Narita said.

Basically, while the neoconservatives are squandering trillions of dollars in the Middle East and promoting gradual ethnic cleansing of the elements of the American people, Japan is forging ahead.

VDARE.COM, of course, has been writing about Japan’s use of robots for years.

The article didn’t mention that one of the major reasons for Japanese advancement in robotics is that immigration is taboo in Japan - and wealth is far more evenly held than in the US. Japan has been advancing faster than the US in the key metric of productivity per worker.

The thing is, something similar could be happening in the USA. If Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota were independent countries, they would exceed the math/science test scores of any far Eastern country. Traditionally, Japan has excelled not in huge innovations, but in refining technologies developed elsewhere. There simply is no Japanese equivalent of Kary Mullis, creating a whole new industry with a single major invention. Still, the insane policies of the lawyers, real estate, and financial interests that run America are allowing nations like Japan a chance to catch up with the US.

If the economics of immigration were really examined accurately, it would be obvious that Japan is taking the better long term strategy - and that the US with its great natural resources would have even more attractive options for creating a viable, technologically advanced economy. The same techniques that automate care of the elderly in Japan could be used to automate the picking of lettuce, construction and landscaping tasks dependent on illegal alien labor. This could have been done for a faction of the trillions of dollars wasted on foreign and domestic adventures.

If the US were to get back on track economically, the 20 million illegal aliens brought to the US by its corrupt and decadent wealthy could be repatriated largely voluntarily by relatively small cash inducements paid by expropriating the employers of illegal aliens and from those that have benefited indirectly from illegal immigration - property owners and investors.