II. Cultural.
45 1. Will Latin American migrants bring with them thetradition
of the mordida (bribe), the lack
of involvement in public affairs, etc.? What in fact are the
characteristics of Latin American culture, versus that of the United States?
See Harrison`s Washington Post article in the September 3 packet.
2. When does diversity grade over into division?
50 3. Will Blacks be able to improve (or even maintain) their
position in the face of the Latin onslaught? (See Graph 3)
4. How will we make the transition from a dominant non-Hispanic
society with a Spanish influence to a dominant Spanish society with
non-Hispanic influence?
5. Do ethnic enclaves (Bouvier, p. 18) constitute resegregation?
As Whites see their power
55 and control over their lives declining, will they simply
go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion? Why don`t
non-Hispanic Whites have a group identity, as do Blacks, Jews, Hispanics?
6. Note that Graph 2 shows virtually all the population growth
will come from immigrants and their descendants.
60 7. Is there a difference in the rates of assimilation between
Asians and Latins?
8. Should something be said about the competing metaphors of the
salad bowl and the melting pot?
9. What exactly is it that holds a diverse society together?
Gerda`s paper said that in our case, it was a common language.
65 10. Is assimilation a function of the educational and economic
level of immigrants? If so,
what are the consequences of having so many ill-educated people
coming in to low paying jobs?
11. We`re building in a deadly disunity. All great empires
disintegrate, we want stability. (Lamm)
70 12. Enclaves lead to rigidity. (Hardin)
13. The theory of a moratorium: the pause in immigration
between 1930-1950, combined with the assimilating experience of fighting
side-by-side in the trenches in World War II, gave us a needed pause so that we
could assimilate the mass of people who came in the early years of the century.
Do we again need such a pause?
75 14. Concerning the moratorium, here are some phrases that
could be used: "The pause that
refreshes." "A seventh inning stretch." "Take a break, catch-up,
eliminate a backlog, take a breather."
15. Perhaps mention should be made of Pacific Bell`s move to
install completely separate Spanish and Chinese language phone systems
in California (see May 27 packet).
80 16. Novak`s term "unmeltable ethnics" is probably better
than some of the others that have been suggested. Similarly, ethnicity is a
more acceptable term than race. It should also be noted that 50% of all
Hispanic surname people on the census forms designate themselves as White. So
perhaps we should speak of Hispanic Whites and non-Hispanic Whites, to further
diffuse the issue. Is Anglo a better term that White? LANGUAGE IS VERY
important here.
85 III. Conservation and Demography
1. What will be the effect on the conservation movement, which
has drawn its support in the past from other than the minorities, and which has
relied on the political power of the majority to pass legislative measures? As
the people that groups like the Sierra Club represent go into opposition
(minority political status), will many of the things they`ve worked for be
90 lost because the new majority holds other values?
2. Can homo contraceptivus compete with homo
progenitiva if borders aren`t controlled? Or is advice to limit ones family
simply advice to move over and let someone else with greater reproductive
powers occupy the space?
3. What are the consequences to California of the raw population
growth that is coming, the
95 ethnic change aside (see Graph 1)?
4. What is the conservation ethnic [sic] of the Asian and Latin
American newcomers? Will they adopt ours or keep theirs?
5. The Sierra Club may not want to touch the immigration issue,
but the immigration issue is going to touch the Sierra Club! (To mention just
one group.)
100 6. On the demographic point: perhaps this is the first
instance in which those with their pants
up are going to get caught by those with their pants down!
7. Do you agree with Teitelbaum`s statement, "International
migration has now become an important point of intersection between the
different demographic profiles of developing and developed countries"? (Fear
of Population Decline, p. 134--see also pp. 111-115.)
105 IV. Jurisprudence
1. What are the consequences for affirmative action of the
ethnic change coming along? Will the non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) have a limited
number of spots in professional schools, etc. proportionate to their numbers?
Or will affirmative action go beyond this (as it does now in Malaysia) to cut
spots to below their proportionate share, to enable other groups to "catch-
110 up?"
2. Anything to be said about drugs and the border?
3. Will we get more of the Napoleonic Code influence, and does
it make a difference?
4. What do we demand of immigrants--or more correctly, what
should we demand of them: a. Learn our language.
115 b. Adopt our political ideals.
c. Assimilate and add their flavoring to our stew.
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