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In your sad little world, perhaps. *shrug*
I happen to agree. The change to reminding Americans they all came from some where else and creating the xxxxx-american was and is the worst thing this country EVER did. It works against creating harmony, it works against creating togetherness and a feeling of belonging to THIS Nation. It will continue to be a problem until someone stands up and says ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
Here's the thing. I never refer to myself as a hyphenate. I don't refer to anyone else as a hyphenate and neither do the people I know. I think activists tend to do that and they do it for their own purposes.
But we also know what WJ stands for and what his agenda is. And that's what I was responding to. I think his brand of racial hatred is pathetic and it isn't anything that I come into contact with on any level in real life.
Starting in the 70's there was and continues to be a concerted effort to REMIND us all we are from some where else. It is devisive and dangerous. It has nothing to do with white supremists, it was and is a concerted effort by main stream political groups. Aided and abetted by Travel agencies in the hopes of attracting those divergent groups to travel "home" using said travel agencies.
But WJ's point had everything to do with racial separatism. And you know that, too.
The quote he cited is NOT about preventing people from coming to America, it ia about ensuring those that come learn they are Americans NOT XXX- Americans.
This is exactly what happened.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
This is exactly what happened.
In your sad little world, perhaps. *shrug*
When did this happen? I have not heard of people calling themselves German-Americans, French-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc. But I do see the problem Roosevelt warned about occurring in America today, with the Latinos, Muslims, etc. not being interested in integrating into the American culture. Is that what you had in mind?
I certainly hope that our elected reps have some idea of the major problems that will be created if they permit this problem to remain unchallenged.
Really? You don't see pockets of nationalized ethnic groups in America BESIDES LATINOS AND MUSLIMS? hehehe... ooook. I guess we know which ethnicities are still OK to crap on.
There is no common American. The Constitution does NOT describe what makes someone an American. WHY? Because even then there was a broad range of culture in America which qualified as American. Quakers? Puritans? Southern? Northern? How many colonial demographics were as impure then as ours are now? I do not agree with the tripe that is Caucasian Supremacy which TR subscribed to and I certainly am not threatened by hyphenated Americans whose loyalty remains with America. These days we may not TRUST latinos and Muslims to put America before their other aliegences and common denominators but the same was said about the Germans, French and everyone else at some point during the course of our national history.
It's exactly the diversity which the Constitution now protects that is one of America's greatest virtues.
Believe what you will sir, this country continues to be torn apart by those that don't want to be American. But, look to be African American, Mexican American, put any tag you want on it, but its just another way to divide and remove what use to be the heart, and the glue, that made America what it once was.
Diversity is a word for those that wish to divide.
Diversity is a word, AND an action, that puts barricades between ethnic groups, that would otherwise live in harmony.
Congratulations............
Really? You don't see pockets of nationalized ethnic groups in America BESIDES LATINOS AND MUSLIMS? hehehe... ooook. I guess we know which ethnicities are still OK to crap on.
There is no common American. The Constitution does NOT describe what makes someone an American.
Believe what you will sir, this country continues to be torn apart by those that don't want to be American. But, look to be African American, Mexican American, put any tag you want on it, but its just another way to divide and remove what use to be the heart, and the glue, that made America what it once was.
Diversity is a word for those that wish to divide.
Diversity is a word, AND an action, that puts barricades between ethnic groups, that would otherwise live in harmony.
Congratulations............
Stop with the politically correctness stuff. Im not buying any of it. Are you denying that the U.S. has an immigration problem today? That we have ethnic groups living in our country, taking advantage of all the rights/privileges/opportunities, but who have no interest in becoming Americans, who prefer to speak a language other than English, and have no hesitance at all to flying another countrys flag in their protest marches?
A country is made up of citizens who pledge their allegiance to that country, respect the flag, and make every effort to assimilate into that countrys culture, including learning and speaking the language. Why do you think we have a Pledge of Allegiance? Or do you scoff at that too?
Of course the Constitution does not define what makes someone an American. That is not its purpose. The Constitution defines the system of government under which we live.
How retarded.
Are you familiar at all with the demographics of colonial America? At all? There was not uniform Common culture among the original states.
People came here, IN FACT, to get away from people like you.
Being American isn't about mimicking your personal daily habits. the Constitution doesn't declare a specific range of acceptable cultural observations in order to qualify for its protection.
What you REALLY mean to say is that these other ethnic groups are not as apple pie white as you want them to be. Again, it is fortunate that the strength of America lies in it's even application of protected liberty DESPITE your opinion regarding the homogenization of our culture.
Your Archie Bunker days are over, dude. Get used to it.
Yea I'm STAGGERED by the crazy unamerican shenanigans every St. Patricks day when all the Irish-Americans BRAZENLY flaunt their dedication to Ireland. Indeed, every pasta resteraunt I eat at with an Italian American slinging noodles sens me into a McCarthy-like frenzy to hunt down the unloyal Italian dissidents. Gosh.. Don't EVEN get me started on those goddamn Asian-Americans whose kung fu movies are clearly indoctrination into Buddhism. Don't they know that they should have a goddamn JESUS statue taking bananna offerings at the Chinese resteraunts? AFRICAN-Americans? Yea, THEY really had a choice in the matter. Mexican-Americans? Ever see a Zorro episode? Why do you think San Fransisco wasn't named Saint Francis? Hell, most locations in the Southwest ARE the original product of some variation of latino culture.
ALL of that is as American as it gets. The truth is, there have always been a range of American experience. Your ancestors probably said the same things about mics and whopps that you do about latinos and muslims. Sure, I agree on a closed border and the problems that illegal immigration entails... But, I bet you don't look similarly critical of Hyphenated americans who support a particular mid eastern nation of chosen people quite like you do when a Latino waves a mexican flag, eh? Indeed, lecture me on PC some more.
