Monday, January 18, 2010

The Kind of Multi Culturalism America Can Do Without

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Mobile water stations were mobbed by crowds who have lived without basic sanitation for nearly a week. By text message and word of mouth, reports spread of a woman decapitated for whatever she had been carrying near one of the few functioning markets. Police shot and killed a man suspected of looting. Where police failed to intervene, crowds resorted to lynching, leaving fresh bodies on streets just cleared of those left by the earthquake.

Click here for the full article. The problem with countries where the rule of law is weak, and corruption and crime is the norm, is that people get used to doing business that way. When they leave to go to another country, many of them retain their old ways and export it to their new country. In defense of the good and decent people from Haiti, when they arrive in the U.S. they are so happy to be here that they do work hard and try to do what is right.

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