Posted on 12/11/2009 10:34:43 AM PST by C19fan
A new, comprehensive survey of young Latinos paints a mixed picture of their footing in the United States. They express overall satisfaction with their lives, despite high levels of poverty and teenage pregnancy, while carving an identity based more on their parents’ home country rather than labels like “American” or even “Hispanic” or “Latino.”
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Build the fence, send them ALL back to mexico, and let them decide there.
They all drive like their back in the olde country!
I don’t know about that. You look at the list of names of soldiers killed in the Global War on Terror from Texas and you see that almost half the names are Hispanic. You are ass likely to see Gomez or Rivera on that list as Williams or Johnson. A more apt comparison of these young men and women would be to the Irish. Irish in all things but American in all things. I put this question to the latinos around here all the time. “If war broke out between Mexico and the US, what side would you fight on?” They always say they would defend the Texas side of the Rio Grande against those on the other side of it.
I never understood why anyone would want to vacation in a country that people are trying to leave? I’ll take the Bahamas and the like over Mexico any holiday!
Real easy. The Mexicans need to go back to their own country where they can be first.
If the USA is such a terrible place and so discriminating, unfair, and economically unjust, why do millions creep across, breed or overstay visas to be “enslaved by the white man” here?
Deport now. Deport often. Build the fence. Reform welfare. Hang traitors.
No Shite. They are American when they accept handouts and mexican all the other times.
Deport Em, Don’t Reward Em
this is bullsh#t. Especially for “hispanics” in Texas. Maybe in Cali, New York.. or Illinois
Every immigrant group that came to the United States maintained a loyalty to their home country until at least the third generation. Why would we expect Mexican immigrants be any different?
The pattern is extremely typical of large group immigrations. The first generation rarely learns to speak English. The second generation learns the old language first and English when they get to school. The third generation speaks English first and is generally more loyal to their new country.
It is true that when immigrants establish insular conclaves that acculturation takes longer. But even that is part of the history of most immigrants from Western Europe when they first arrived in the US. English was not the only language, there were a lot of communities which spoke German, Italian, and French as their first language.
This post is not a defense of illegal immigration or of our current immigration policy. I just wanted to point out that we display ignorance of our history if we go too far in our anti-Mexican rants.
I think many people base their "anti-Mexican rants" more on what Mexicans do after they come to this country, and not simply on the fact that a large number of Mexicans are here illegally, or that they tend to live in their own race-based enclaves. For me, seeing thousands of Mexicans march through our streets while waving the Mexican flag and demanding amnesty is enough to cause me to develop an anti-Mexican leaning.
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