[Magdalen] Immigration and Naturalization Laws 1965 - 1966 USA.

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It seems to me that these very important changes  in the laws in 1965 and 1966have had enormous impact on the USA, and they were quietly signed with theirshift away from emphasis on European immigrants with a liberalization ofimmigration from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The laws got little generaldiscussion and were not thoroughly vetted.  Some of the reading I've done onthis subject implies that those who put the laws and regulations together
didn't themselves fully understanding what they were doing.

This has had the effect of an earthquake on the makeup of this USA, and itstrikes me that these changes  were not well vetted, and though some ofthe USA, is in agreement with the changes (including myself), a great dealof the USA, especially those in the hinterlands simply have never fully understoodwhat these laws accomplished and think of the USA in terms of how it was pre-1965-1966.

If anyone had asked me what I thought the "purpose" of the USA was in, say,1964, I would have said we were an extension of European (includes UK)culture in the New World.  I certainly wouldn't say that now, but I suspect themajority of, for instance, Midwesterners, would answer what I would havesaid in 1964. So we have those USA citizens who still think it is 1964 andothers who have, for better or worse, moved on and embraced the changes.This dichotomy has some relationship to what is currently going on streets ofUSA cities.

It takes a little getting used to, this polyglot nation we have built.  Am I completelyoff base with these thoughts?

David S.