[wardaddy]

Dinesh is projecting his brown mans resentments on my ancestors

It’s a fools logic and an extension of the demonization of whites

His real beef is England

He needs to get smacked with a Rudyard cricket bat

He’s got no sense of context and little gratitude

[Ohioan]

In my opinion, it is totally inappropriate for a newcomer into America to accept the benefits of being here, and then trash the descendants of the Founders; totally inappropriate. That does not mean he can not have opinions on various subjects; but it really is not debatable that the ongoing purpose of our Constitutional Federation was the common defense & enduring liberty of the Founders' posterity.

Now three of my four grandparents were immigrants, as were the grandparents of the one who was not. I have always considered it a solemn moral duty to uphold the intent of the founders of the political society into which we were accepted.

You and I agree on almost everything, but I do not think Dinesh has any really legitimate beef against England. It is not necessarily a legitimate beef, if a much smaller nation, with a fraction of your population, located almost halfway around the world, is able to control you for two centuries. It might make an interesting subject for debate, if we did not have more immediate concerns, today, whether India was more a victim or a beneficiary of the era when Britannia ruled the waves.

(Anyway, the influence of British personality types & ancient values on our value system--as reflected in the Constitution--cannot be denied. That is relevant to the subject.)