José;2201406 said:Sorry folks. It was not a serious post by any stretch. I just couldn't resist the temptation.
But think about it for a moment... The line "I want my country back" makes much more sense coming out of the mouths of illegal Mexicans residing in the US (and Indians, as Luissa righty noted) than in the mouth of Anglo citizens of the US.
Nobody "stole" your country from you Anglo (so far, at least). Last time I checked the American Southwest was firmly under US control and nobody but hispanic fringe groups seriously questions America's sovereignty under those former Mexican provinces. So you can't "want back" what you never lost in the first place as Vanquish stated.
But Mexicans cannot "want it back" either because the moment the country as a whole accepted US control over those regions it was not their land anymore. So don't even bother typing angry replies to that farcical post : )
Was the USA justified in claiming the land it took from England via war? From Spain? From Mexico? All that is certainly subject to debate. But if America is to be condemned for its imperialist and sometimes violent history, then so must all peoples everywhere for few exist that didn't take their homeland from somebody else. Such is the evolution of the human species.
But now we live in the 21st century and, at this time in history, have elected to be a people living on a land with defensible borders and governed by rule of law. If we cannot defend those borders or if we cannot or do not enforce our laws, it is inevitable that we will lose the land to others. That might be mostly via bloodless coup as we saw during the Middle Ages in Europe, but others will take the land and alter the way of life here in whatever way they see fit.
The tragedy of that is that those who take it will almost certainly turn it into places similar to what they left and we indeed will lose the America that we have known and loved and that attracted so many to come here in the first place.
To recognize that we have already lost at least some of the original America makes the slogan in the OP more valid.
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