[Paul Bunyan]

The UK today goes to extreme lengths to micromanage the populace to the extent that everyone should be forced to exist in their own virtual ethnic, linguistic and cultural enclaves. The flip side of the nanny state is that while momma England knows and does best, everyone should be forced to never assimilate in any meaningful way because perish the thought that English-ness ever be imposed on the charming ethnic people of Brittain and their interesting customs and funny hats. And instead of making a large culture that 'respects' the values of others all it doed is breed contempt among everyone for everything else.

This is the great difference between the UK and the US. Here we work, for the most part to make everyone 'American' within a wide latitude of what that means to each, but none the less, American in some identifiable way. We don't generally like or support or appreciate isolationist or seperatist movements. Some would even call them here, hate groups. We allow people to cherish their hyphenation but only to a limited extent and only in personal ways. We don't have Greek holidays in school or Tibetan festivals except as voluntary affairs meant to include the outside communities.

I read that about Bolivia, groups that call themselves falangist or fascist are making noises against all 'foreigners' aka anyone who's not an indigenous native, Mayan I guess. Bolivia for the Mayans is their call and Simon Bolivar was not a patriot but a white invader no better than the Spaniards he kicked out. OK, that's a wonderful mythology.