Speculation and guess on How the American Personality and Character is changing due to the influx of many immigrants in the last decades. And their Children born in America or brought at a tender age

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And how the Old "White" or Old "Black" Americans have been changing Psychologically or Mentally because of the relationship with the "New Americans".

First, let's observe that the "New Americans" differ very widely of the original populations of their countries of origin. They are healthier and more adventurous than their original neighbors at the start of their lives, bolder and more audacious than their original environment.

That explains a lot about the proverbial Good Health of the "New Americans" and this is confirmed  by many scientific studies about Health and Ethnics. As time goes on the new generations start to lose that quality of excellent Health.

Probably the brain of a person that is very adventurous and bold generates endorphins, and other  neurotransmitters that drive people to some optimism and activity. At least 20 types of endorphins have been demonstrated in humans. And those that generate brain chemicals of adventure and action may enjoy better health than those burdened by pessimism and depression. So the "New Americans" are self-selected.

The New Americans may like work and dislike war and political turmoil, we are talking of course of many Asians, Africans, Latin Americans, etc .... that have suffered the consequences of War as victims, they may have seen brutal regimes in action, so they dislike dictatorship.

So the New Americans are not going to be enthusiastic about the George W. Bush type of "Invasion and Occupation", they may look physically and psychologically like the victims in those countries of the Middle East and South Asia like Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc .... or the most Arab Countries like Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Sudan, etc ....

So the New Americans are going to be "Doves" and not "Hawks" applauding the Jingoist, Cowboy, Macho Macho politics of a Mitt Romney, John McCain and the harshest and hardest practitioners of "Send in the Marines" in the U. S. Congress.

So America may become softer, mellower, and sweeter towards other Human Beings of distant nations and less warlike, bellicose and belligerent.

Observe also that the intellectual elites in Latin America have always resisted the power of the Catholic Church and there is nothing like the "American Religious Right" in Latin America. So these new Latinos are appalled by the "Christian Talibans" in America. The same Catholic Church in Latin America has a little of "Liberation Theology" and has become less despotic and tyrannical with time.

Someone like "Rick Santorum" or "Paul Ryan" is difficult to imagine in Latin America. The Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church repels Social Darwinism and Ayn Rand Brutality. The Papal Encyclicals have constantly condemned Plutocracy. Nobody in Latin America believes in being chosen by God to rule the World or having the power of "Exceptionalism".

So a Mitt Romney is hard to imagine in Latin America. And Latin American Universities are probably more atheistic than those in the USA. Religion is almost never mentioned in political campaigns in that subcontinent.

There are more points to discuss : The new Latinos could be more noisy, more feisty and even obnoxious, more familiar or family oriented. They believe in the good possibilities of a Federal Government more than the "American Natives", and so they don't understand the Grover Norquists and other crazies, like the U. S. House Republicans pushing for a Fiscal Cliff Hoax.

Vicente Duque

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