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The US Isn't looking for purity (that's got to be obvious considering who our Presidential candidates are) It is however looking for conformity. It's not racist or xenophobic to expect immigrants to conform to the society the US has created. It's the ones who want the US to change and turn into the countries they left that are unwelcome.

Yes you can have religious freedom, but your freedom ends where mine begins. You want to follow Muhammad, be my guest, But don't try to force me to.

You want to speak your native language, be my guest. But don't get pissed when I try to communicate with you speaking English.

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You want to speak your native language, be my guest. But don't get pissed when I try to communicate with you speaking English.

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I don't see European countries bordering the middle east allowing polygamous marriages to their Muslims.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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It's not xenophobia not to accept cultures that are negative and incompatible.

I mean honour killing is a culture. Is it xenophobia to refused to accept their culture?

That is easy to deal with. A country has laws. In the US we have laws to say what we allow or not. We don't reject a people because of their culture, we only reject whatever particular thing in that culture that is not legal here. Rejecting a particular item from a culture is not rejecting the entire culture. And accepting what of their culture is legal here does not necessarily mean we accept everything in their culture, Islamophobic screaming on that last point notwithstanding.

Again I disagree. Maybe because I came from a country where polygamous marriage is made legally allowed for Muslims only. The waived the need for them to follow civil law in that aspect. That is them accepting one of their culture. So to extend your law to disallow their culture, is a form of not accepting their culture.

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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I don't see European countries bordering the middle east allowing polygamous marriages to their Muslims.

Singapore is not merely a 'border state', it is a tiny speck in the middle of a large area that has been predominantly Muslim centuries before the British empire showed up and created your little microstate for you.

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Number 1, Geisha women are kinda seen as whores. The Japanese are more than happy for the chinese to play a "whore" role.

Don't you know Jap and chinese hate each other?

That is the real reason.

Of course technically they aren't suppose to sleep with men, but they are there to entertain men.

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

After the most brutal election campaign in living memory, one thing is clear irrespective of who wins - the USA is deeply divided, with fault lines on race, gender and class reflecting that divide. The racism xenophobia and hate that marred the election campaign needs to be stared down. The naked anger that fuelled Trump's campaign needs to be recognised and addressed.

Healing will be a great deal easier if the losing candidate concedes defeat gracefully, as tradition has long had it. However on this there are no guarantees from one side. Will the losers accept the people's verdict? If not what does the future hold for the US? Will the GOP split into populist and establishment wings with the populist wing refusing to accept a possible Clinton Presidency under any circumstances? Will healing and unity be possible if a significant portion of the population withholds consent and tries to delegitimise the result?

How can the complex issues that intersect with those deep fault lines be resolved in a manner that will satisfy the electorate? Is a solution possible to issues like abortion, institutional racism, unemployment and underemployment? Will Trump or Clinton be the person to achieve that resolution and reconciliation? Will Congress rise to the challenge or continue in its self indulgent blanket opposition to Presidential initiatives? And if they fail .....?

Will we end up having to remove the 'United' bit from the United States of America?

ETA: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37891511

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I don't see European countries bordering the middle east allowing polygamous marriages to their Muslims.

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In America we say fuck you mormons, you will conform to our state religion or we throw your asses in jail!

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In America we say fuck you mormons, you will conform to our state religion or we throw your asses in jail!

If you want your taxes to subsidize polygamy by tax benefits of the husband filing jointly with five wives, you're welcome to it. We'll make a special check box on the tax form just for you, so you can pay all of it. Thanks for leaving the rest of us out of it.

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ORIGINAL: Real0ne

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In America we say fuck you mormons, you will conform to our state religion or we throw your asses in jail!

If you want your taxes to subsidize polygamy by tax benefits of the husband filing jointly with five wives, you're welcome to it. We'll make a special check box on the tax form just for you, so you can pay all of it. Thanks for leaving the rest of us out of it.

so punish polygamists because you arent qualified to keep the books is that it?

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In America we say fuck you mormons, you will conform to our state religion or we throw your asses in jail!

If you want your taxes to subsidize polygamy by tax benefits of the husband filing jointly with five wives, you're welcome to it. We'll make a special check box on the tax form just for you, so you can pay all of it. Thanks for leaving the rest of us out of it.

so punish polygamists because you arent qualified to keep the books is that it?

Yep, poly the pugilist aren't book enough to keep qualified because that's it.

Just like you said.

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needs of gubmint (mob) over the needs of the people.

they never forget to tell us how free we are!