MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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Every Canadian should be born with a Green Card ...
The general pattern for immigrants is that the first generation generally stay loyal to their home country's ways and culture. The second generation are basically American with a strong attachment to their country of origin. By the third generation, they are fully American with their heritage being not much more than an interesting bit of knowledge.
Mexico is different because we share a border with Mexico. Generally, when immigrants come to America, there is a large physical barrier to coming here. Not with Mexico. And with so many Mexicans, it is easy to become part of the community.
It is understandable that first generation immigrants don't speak English. However, it is beyond comprehension why second generation immigrants would not. English is effectively the global language today, primarily because of the United States. People all around the world take English as their primary second language to attain a better life. (In Switzerland, where there are four official languages but two primary ones - German and French - German-speaking school children are now learning English first before they learn French.) It is utterly mind-boggling that people born in the United States would not know English. Their parents are doing an enormous disservice to their children by not having them taught English.
I think that before there became such a huge migration from Mexico, they probably DID try to assimilate better into American society. But now Mexicans will congregate more among their own, knowing they are disliked in general. Wouldn't you? And when there is more conversation in Spanish because of that, they will continue to speak their language first. It's the same with Puerto Rican's, who are actually Americans. They prefer mixing with their own kind. It isn't beyond comprehension. It's quite simple.
Those two particular groups you mentioned along with many, or it seems most others, want to come to this country not to be Americans as many of our ancestors did but rather they come here wanting to be a Mexican, African, Asian, Iranian etc etc etc in America.
We have entire sections of this country that now are more like third world shit holes where no English is spoken than ever before. These people have no desire to become Americans. They want to make America like the shit hole they left.
My great grandfather came through Ellis Island from Italy. The second he became a citizen, he proudly said he was an American. Not an Italian American.
Why is it that Canadians don't qualify their citizenship? I met a black guy from Ontario and he doesn't identify himself as an African Canadian.
We are watering down our culture in the name of diversity and it will end with the US becoming just another third world rat hole but worse because we will have no common language. Our government will have to print everything in 25 different languages and hire thousands of interpreters just to conduct its everyday business.
Considering I live within four miles of an Italian-American Club, I'd say right off the top of my head that you're clueless. Almost any immigrant is proud of his native country and proud of his adopted country. Black people who were forced to come to America, together with their subsequent history of oppression, ultimately becoming Americans in their own right, have every reason to attach the two regions as inclusive.