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Vilket r helt logiskt, eftersom USA r grundat genom en vnsterrevolution och dess hgsta domstol finns fr att se till att grundarnas visioner fullfljs.
LAndsfdernas vision var tvrtom djupt etnocentrisk och inte alls baserad p att alla mnniskor skulle f samma rtt till USA. Vi ska komma ihg att det var monarkierna som befolkade nya Vrlden med svarta slavar och drmed skapade den mngetniska kaos som vi rvt fram till idag i den delen av Vrlden, och detta med exempelvis katolska kyrkans godknnande.
Ordenaes Manuelinas i Portugal, Code Noir i Frankrike, och hollndska East India Company Ordinances var exempel p sdana samhllsfrstrande befolkningsutbyten som den gamla vrldens aristokrati inte hade ngon problem med, d de knappt hade en knsla fr nation verhuvudtaget (ofta var de rentav frmlingar till nationen och talade ett annat sprk).
Benjamin Franklin uttalar sig tvrtom om att hans ml r att anglifiera den Nya Vrlden och stoppa afrikaniseringen av USA:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash30...ervations.html
Han uttrycker betydligt mer etnocentriska motiv till sin slaverimotstnd:
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Compexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.
Likas har han en korrekt uppfattning om den negativa fljden som slaveri har fr vita invnare:
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he Negroes brought into the English Sugar Islands, have greatly diminish'd the Whites there; the Poor are by this Means depriv'd of Employment, while a few Families acquire vast Estates; which they spend on Foreign Luxuries, and educating their Children in the Habit of those Luxuries; tile same Income is needed for the Support of one that might have maintain'd 100. The Whites who have Slaves, not labouring, are enfeebled, and therefore not so generally prolific; the Slaves being work'd too hard, and ill fed, their Constitutions are broken, and the Deaths among them are more than the Births; so that a continual Supply is needed from Africa. The Northern Colonies having few Slaves increase in Whites. Slaves also pejorate the Families that use them; the white Children become proud, disgusted with Labour, and being educated in Idleness, are rendered unfit to get a Living by Industry.
Det var ocks Thomas Jefferson som frbjd fortsatt import av slavar innan USA brjade se ut som typ Brasilien:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Pr...tion_of_Slaves
Allts s skulle jag pst att revolutionrerna tvrtom skerstllde att USA skulle bli ett vitt land, vilket inte ndvndigtvis skulle vara fallet ifall britterna ftt fortstta enbart se nya kolonierna som ett omrde att mjlka p resurser, med massimport av slavar, utan ngon strre drm om att bygga en stabil nation.
Vi sg i Latinamerika vilken instabi mngetnisk kaos som portugisserna och spanjorerna skapade.
Att sedan vi ftt 200 r senare mnniskor som har en annan drm t USA som helt sidolgger den etniska dimensionen r inte direkt frknippad med landsfdernas drm p ngot stt. Man kan givetvis beskylla landsfderna fr att inte ha med mer etniska dimensioner inom konstitutionen, men att de var betydligt mer etnocentriska n monarkierna i Europa rder det nog ingen tvekan om.
Thomas Jefferson rvde en nation med 20% afrikaner frn britterna (ngot som stndigt kade dessutom), och runt 1900 s r istllet 90% av nationen vita europeer och enbart 10% afrikaner.