[The Great RJ]

My great grandparents came to the US from Europe and they quickly gave up their traditional dress and language and learned English and dressed like their neighbors. The last thing they wanted was to remain culturally isolated.

While I welcome the cultural diversity that many immigrants bring, I am wary of those who would turn the US into a mirror of where they came from. This is the USA and seeing women in the streets covered from head to toe, while their husbands and sons wear western attire smacks of repression. That we even kind of tolerate child marriages, Muslim cabbies refusing to take service dogs in their cabs or Muslims at the grocery checkout refusing to scan pork products says we have gone beyond diversity. I resent having to print drivers manuals in multiple languages and that Spanish labels are on every product. We sadly are losing our identity as a nation all because of theis PC diversity crap.

[GranTorino]

My great grandparents came from Hungary in the late 19th century. Two generations later I remember listening to my grandfather speak Hungarian, in privet to one of his friends. He wouldn't teach my mom the language because he was proud to be an American. I don't feel I have lost my heritage because of this. We still cook Hungarian food and are proud of our linage. We are Americans first. And proud of our assimilation. I think my Great Grandfather would be proud.