Bratz Dolls

By Dr. Kevin MacDonald

Not having any young daughters I was quite unaware of the “wildly successful” Bratz dolls or the recent movie featuring them. (”A Good-Girl Make-Over for the Bratz,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2007). The dolls are aimed at 4-8-year-old girls, with “dewy lips, fishnet stockings and barely-there miniskirts — a creep-out factor for a lot of moms. Earlier this year, a report from the American Psychological Assn. even mentioned the Bratz dolls by name and said ‘it is worrisome when dolls designed specifically for 4- to 8-year-olds are associated with an objectified adult sexuality.’ ” So we have the cultural subversion theme going on: “ten-inch tall hoochie mamas” for little girls to play with. Director Sean McNamara’s first reaction to the dolls is revealing: “These aren’t cute dolls — they look like sluts.” (Here’s a collection from Google Images.)

But for the movie, they probably figured that the teenage girls as sluts theme would mean that the girls would actually have to act slutty rather than just look slutty. That would bring about an R-rating or worse, and therefore cut down on the profits. So the hoochie mama theme was downplayed in favor of a strong multicultural conflict between multi-race good guys versus “country club white” bad guys. The bad guys are led by “student-body president Meredith, who is platinum blond, affluent, haughty and in possession of both nefarious plans to rule the school and a pampered pooch named (ahem) Paris.” (more…)

Mexican claims to U.S. soil historically unfounded

By James Foxcurran

College campuses most often use the negative terms “imperialism” and “colonialism” to describe European and American history. Meanwhile, in 21st century North America, our southern neighbor is being granted moral legitimacy for the same behavior.

Mexican immigrants are now present in the Southwestern United States with a population percentage they have never enjoyed at any other time in history.

While defendants are saying it’s just the natural process of the Mexicans moving back onto land that really belongs to them and that the Hollywood demonstrations should be a source of conventional wisdom, history is being overlooked.

Mexico had barely colonized most of the Southwestern United States when it became U.S. territory in 1848. Spain, then Mexico, merely held imperial sway over Indian territories.

In 1835, Texas had about 3,500 Spanish-speaking residents, compared with almost 30,000 Anglo-American settlers, according to Ray Allen Billington, in his book The Far Western Frontier: 1830-1860.

In California, there were about 4,000 to 7,000 Spanish-speaking residents in the 1840s. The vast majority of the population was still Indian. Scattered missions, pueblos and presidios represented most of the Mexican presence in the area, which is why it was so easy for the United States to seize the area during the Mexican-American war, according to “History of French America” by Gilles Harvard and Cecile Vidal.

Meanwhile, in 1803, at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, there were 40,000 to 50,000 French-speaking residents west of the Mississippi River between Missouri and Washington state. (more…)

Losing the American Dream

By James Buchanan – EURO

A recent news article reports on a new phenomenon: “Toby Byrum decided to have a vasectomy to end his reproductive years. Unlike most of them, Byrum had his at the age of 28 while he is still single and childless. Two years later, the Web consultant from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has no regrets… He’s not alone… (Doctors) around the country say that they are seeing a small but growing number of young men who are deciding to have vasectomies when they are young, all but insuring that they will never be able to have children of their own. ‘It’s kind of getting to be a departure from this society – a wife, a husband, have kids, live in the suburbs, – and instead is more, ‘Maybe we don’t want to have kids,’ ‘ Byrum said.”

One thing they don’t mention in the article is that the standard of living for the average White family keeps dropping and dropping and dropping. It used to be the case that a young White man in his 20s could buy a house in a nice neighborhood. Also, the husband could support the family with his salary and the wife had the luxury of being a full time mom if she wanted. Today many White people live in apartments even into their 30s and 40s, and many wind up raising families in apartments.

The skyrocketing cost of housing is due to the flood of Third World immigrants. The lack of job security is the result of a ruthless new “robber baron” capitalism in which corporate CEOs have zero loyalty to American workers and treasonous politicians allow jobs to be exported to the Third World by the millions.

The job market has never been less secure. You may spend four years in college only to find the jobs in your major have been outsourced. Some graduates from college have as much as $100,000 in debt just from their education.

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