Miscellany 24: Solomon Islands: Mass Immigration + Democracy = Lost Country; Mass Deportation Is a Natural Response to Mass Illegal Immigration; An Explanation for Corona Beer’s Success

Copyright © 2006 Joseph George Caldwell.  All rights reserved.  Posted at Internet website http://www.foundationwebsite.org.  May be copied or reposted for non-commercial use, with attribution to author and website.  (1 May 2006; minor edits 13 July 2006)

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Miscellany 24: Solomon Islands: Mass Immigration + Democracy = Lost Country; Mass Deportation Is a Natural Response to Mass Illegal Immigration; An Explanation for Corona Beer’s Success. 1

Miscellany: Commentary on Recent Events and Reading. 1

Solomon Islands: Mass Immigration + Democracy = Lost Country. 1

Mass Deportation Is a Natural Response to Mass Illegal Immigration  3

An Interesting Explanation of Corona Beer’s Phenomenal Success. 7

Miscellany: Commentary on Recent Events and Reading

Solomon Islands: Mass Immigration + Democracy = Lost Country

While I am on a consulting assignment in East Timor, I am staying at an unusual hotel.  It is named the Hotel Audian, and unlike most hotels I have visited, this one is very “social.”  The guests are unusually friendly.  They speak to each other, they chat in the lobby and Internet room, and they engage in long discussions during the evening meal.  Last night, a group of eight of us sang karaoke songs in the restaurant until midnight.

One of the guests in the hotel is a gentleman named Lorimar, from the Solomon Islands.  I met him briefly about a week ago.  He had not realized that the cost of telephone calls from the hotel were about three times that of a normal cell phone, and he had inadvertently racked up a $121 charge for a 40-minute call to his wife back home.

Lorimar told me an interesting story about current events in the Solomon Islands.  About a week ago, the local people decided that they no longer wished to be controlled by the ethnic Chinese community that had arisen from mass immigration over the past few years.  They rioted, and destroyed “Chinatown,” burning the buildings to the ground.

It seems that people never learn.  Some time ago, the Fiji Islanders lost control of their country, after they allowed mass migration of Indians for many years.  Finally, it reached the point where ethnic Indian Fijians outnumbered ethnic native Fijians.  Under the democratic system that Fiji had adopted, control of the country now rested with the aliens they had allowed to enter their country over the years.  Outraged at this loss of their country at the hands of their unwise leader who had allowed the invasion and takeover of their country, the native Fijians chucked democracy, exercised their “right of primacy,” and wrested control away from the invaders.

It appears, years later, that the same thing is now happening in the Solomon Islands.  News reports from last week explain that the leaders of the Solomon Islands have been allowing mass immigration of Chinese to the island, and allowed economic control of the country to be gained by the Chinese immigrants.  The situation in the Solomon Islands is not exactly the same as the one in Fiji.  In Fiji, mass immigration was allowed to the point where the ethnic Indian immigrants outnumbered the native Fijians.  In the Solomon Islands, the Chinese community is still small relative to the native population, but the Chinese immigrants, who are well resourced and skillful businessmen from Taiwan, have taken control economically.  Lorimar told me that the Chinese had erected many new buildings, and that all of these were torched, and “Chinatown” leveled.  A few days ago, the Prime Minister, alleged to have financial ties to the Chinese, resigned.

The United States is undergoing exactly the same process as Fiji and the Solomon Islands.  In 1950, the population of the United States was 150 million, and this was a demographically stable.  It was English speaking, mainly white Protestant, with minority populations of about ten percent blacks and about ten percent Catholics.  After passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, America opened the floodgates to mass immigration from all cultures.  The population is now about 300 million.  The population is now very fragmented.  Many people do not speak English – the Hispanic population is now the largest minority ethnic group.  Mass immigration continues at a rate of about one percent per year (three million per year), and soon, white European-derived Protestants will be a minority in the country they founded and controlled for two centuries.  The United States is currently a democratic nation, so as soon as the white Protestants are outnumbered, they will have lost control of their country.  As did the Fijians and the Solomon Islanders, the native US population will have lost their country as a result of mass immigration.

Mass immigration + Democracy = Lost Country.

Mass Deportation Is a Natural Response to Mass Illegal Immigration

The United States is currently experiencing mass migration.  By 1983, the birth rates for both white and black US populations had dropped to replacement level.  But because of the US’ current population policy of mass immigration (about one percent per year, or three million people per year), the population is exploding at a rate comparable to that of developing countries with high birth rates.

Immigration in the US consists of about a million legal immigrants per year and two million illegal immigrants per year.  The government has done nothing to stem the flood of illegal immigration, because it is good for business.  In essence, they are taking a nice, low-population-density country and transforming it into a crowded, third-world country, just for the money.

The President of the United States takes an oath of office in which he swears to uphold the US Constitution, which requires the President to defend the country from invasion.  I quote here from my previous “Miscellany” article: “In his oath of office, President Bush swore to defend the Constitution of the United States.  Article I, Section 8, states, “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.”  Article IV, Section 4, states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”  The Constitution is very explicit: it is the President’s sworn duty to protect the country from invasion.  The terms “repel invasions” and “protect against invasion” do not mean simply converting the invaders to US citizens, as the President and Senate are proposing to do.”

Becoming more sensitive to the loss of their country to mass immigration, many native US citizens are now calling for an immediate deportation of illegal aliens in the country.  This is a very reasonable response.  The illegal aliens are criminals who have illegally entered our country.  They should have been deported immediately upon entry, but US political and business leaders wanted them here for economic reasons, and so virtually no action was taken to reduce or stop the flow.  Now that there are an estimated eleven million illegal aliens in the country, the native population is fed up with the government’s immigration policy, and people are demanding mass deportation.

This past week, President Bush expressed his opposition to mass deportation.  Here is a report from the April 25 issue of the Boston Globe

“President Bush laid down his marker in the intense congressional fight over immigration yesterday, declaring that it's ''unrealistic" for lawmakers to undertake any legislative proposal that includes the mass deportation of the millions of foreigners living illegally in the United States.

“''I know this is an emotional debate," Bush said in a speech before the Orange County Business Council in California. ''But one thing we cannot lose sight of is that we're talking about human beings -- decent human beings that need to be treated with respect. Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic. It's just not going to work."”

Bush’s statement reflects the fact that the government does not want to do anything to reduce the number of immigrants in the country (illegal or legal).  As President, he has taken a vow to protect the country from invasion, and to suppress any invasion that does occur.  By condoning mass illegal immigration, Bush and his predecessors are guilty of gross dereliction of duty and high treason.  The reason he is not being impeached and tried for treason is that all of the other members of Congress (the House, which impeaches (indicts), and the Senate, which tries the case), are guilty of the same crime.  They are all members of the wealthy elite or beholden to the wealthy elite for their positions, and they have no intention of deporting any more than a token number of illegal aliens.

The illegal aliens are criminals, who should never have been allowed to enter in the first place.  By their presence here, they are destroying the quality of life in the US, as well as traditional US culture.  Mass immigration, along with mass international free trade, is driving US wages down and destroying the economic well-being of the American middle class.  The population of the US was about 150 million in 1950, and now, mainly because of mass immigration, it is double that.  In order to visit national parks and wild rivers, it is now necessary to make a reservation a year in advance.  The commute time in major US cities is now an hour each way.  Now, only the wealthy can afford a cottage on a lake or at the beach or in the mountains.  Because immigrants consume up to ten times as much commercial energy in the US as they did in their previous countries, the pace of global energy consumption, industrial pollution and species extinction is increasing because of their presence in the US.  It is impossible for the planet to support six billion people at a high level of living, or even at a moderate or low level of living, without causing the total destruction of the biosphere.

Now that the American public is upset that the illegal immigrants are being allowed to stay, to continue their destruction of American culture and quality of life for the previous residents, the government should deport them en masse, immediately.  Stating that this is “unrealistic” or shows a lack of respect is an absurd reaction.  Some members of Congress have stated that if we simply crack down on businesses, and enforce laws that prohibit their hiring of illegal aliens, the aliens will simply go back home.  This is really idiotic.  The illegal aliens are criminals, and they do not deserve respect or molly-coddling.  They should not be “coaxed” into going back home, by taking away the jobs that they should never have had in the first place, and that contribute only to increased economic activity, industrial pollution of the planet and species extinction.  They should not be made into US citizens, as some, including Bush and his oligarch / plutocrat cronies, have suggested.  They should all be deported, immediately.  And if they refuse to go, the crime of illegal immigration should be made a capital offense, and they should be executed.

An Interesting Explanation of Corona Beer’s Phenomenal Success

A few days ago, a fellow guest here at the Audian Hotel in East Timor told me a remarkable story.  It was the story behind the phenomenal success of Corona Beer, in moving from an ordinary Mexican beer to a premier international brand.

I have known Corona beer for a long time.  When I moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1981, I took up SCUBA diving and made many trips down to San Carlos / Guaymas, Mexico, for diving.  Corona was a popular Mexican beer, which was available in any restaurant.  It was by no means the best Mexican beer.  Some Mexican beers are really good, including Bohemia (my favorite) and Dos Equis.  Another good one is Pacifico.  One of the worst is a beer called Modelo.  It was so bad that it was customary to serve a lime along with it.  Modelo, in fact, was the only beer that was served with a lime in Mexico in the early 1980s.  At some point, Americans got the idea that all Mexican beer was served with a lime, but that was not true in 1981.

The reason why Mexico has some very good beers, such as Bohemia, is that there was a mass immigration of Germans to Mexico in the 1840s.  These immigrants carried their beer-making tradition with them, and it endures until today.  They also brought their folk music with them – that is the reason why Mexican Mariachi music is so reminiscent of German “oom pah pah” traditional music (accordion, guitar, trumpet, violin, bass (“Guitarron” in Mexico)).

Despite the German influence, not all Mexican beers are very good.  Corona is not a very good beer.  It is so light as to be almost tasteless to someone used to full-bodied beers or ales.  It is very similar to the American brand, Budweiser, or to other light (pilsner, lager) American beers, such as Miller and Pabst.   A few years ago, when I started noticing Corona overseas, I was really amazed.  I wondered how a beer that was so vapid could become a popular international brand.

My friend, Ed, told me the reason why.  I have not had a chance to verify this story, which is probably apocryphal, but I will as soon as I get a chance.  Ed told me that there was a class of business students – in marketing, I would imagine – in business school at some branch of the University of California – perhaps it was Irvine.  When the professor announced that there would be an examination at the end of the course, the students complained, and proposed an alternative.  They proposed to find the worst Mexican beer, and turn it into an international brand.  If they were successful, then they would be exempted from the examination.  The professor agreed.

The student then set to work.  They searched the Internet, and determined that Corona was the worst Mexican beer (Corona is a good candidate for “worst Mexican beer,” but I would have chosen Modelo, myself, for this honor).  They then visited the owner of Corona.  It was a family owned brand that, although popular throughout Mexico, had languished in recent years.  The students made their proposal to the owner to make his beer an international brand, and he agreed.  I don’t recall that Ed told me what the terms of the agreement were.

Well, the rest is history.  The students succeeded in their quest, and, despite its very ordinary and weak taste, Corona is now a leading international brand.  With beer, as with virtually everything else in today’s economy, executive decisions and marketing decide what brands will be big.  The big book publishers decide which books will be “best sellers” in the same way.  It has little to do with quality.

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