“Tell her that Mexico is a wonderful country and most of the mexican derived Americans think so much of it that they prefer to identify themselves as Mexican rather than Americans.”
Do you have some hard data to back that stupid statement up?
Too many Freepers make ignorant assumptions like yours. Go check out the rolls of Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, and Silver Star recipients. On those lists you will find many Americans with Spanish surnames. Good men like 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez USMC Medal of Honor, PFC Harold Gonsalves USMC Medal of Honor, SSgt Ambrosio Guillen USMC Medal of Honor, LCpl Jose Francisco Jimenez USMC Medal of Honor, Capt Jay R Vargas USMC Medal of Honor, Sgt Rafael Peralta USMC Navy Cross.
Those are just the Marines. Here is the list of all Medal of Honor recipients with a heritage you claim are disloyal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hispanic_Medal_of_Honor_recipients
My sons and I proudly carry the surname Castillo. I retired from the Marine Corps after 23 years of active duty and 2 combat tours, Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Somalia. My oldest son did 6 years in the army with two deployments to Iraq. He came home with a brain injury and a Purple Heart after his last deployment. My 3rd son is a Marine Corps Combat Engineer with two tours in Afghanistan. Do some friggin research before you spout off about stuff you know nothing about.
I,for one, am glad that we have Americans like you and your boys.I will pray for your sons and thank you for your families service.
Speaking of stupid statements, your over-the-top outrage identifies you as a drama queen, quick to be offended and assuming you know more than everyone else.
There are tens of millions of normal Americans who identify themselves as Americans, with Spanish surnames, whose families came here generations ago, totally legally and complying with all laws. They understand the US Constitution and the rule of law as well or better than the average American.
I am among them; the real outrage is that you are lumping us together with culturally criminally-bent illiterates who will rob everyone blind, in Mexico or anywhere else.
I resent you lumping us all together with those losers.
And you may feel free to join the illegals, their ignorance, their arrogance and their dedication to scamming their host country.
I worked with a guy for years, a Mexican who wanted to be a citizen in the worse way, but he kept failing the test for some reason(maybe nerves), he finally passed the citizenship test and you never saw a happier man. He hated Mexico and hated the periodic trips he had to take back there, trips that stopped once he became an American, and don't anyone dare call him a Mexican-American on pain of getting the faces punched in.
The guy raised 3 kids here, all of them American to the core. He is against Amnesty or was the last time I talked to him.
“Do you have some hard data to back that stupid statement up?”
Nope. No hard data but it is not uncommon to read stories about schools in the border states where the kids run around waving Mexican flags and they even fly mexican flags over schools and businesses. Not to mention stories where they cant say the pledge or sing the national anthem for fear of “offending” the Mexs. Remember the pro amnesty rallys where there were virtually all the flags were Mexican? It looked so bad that the rally organizers had to remind the protesters to fly some American flags so they could give the impression they actually liked America.
Obviously my comments were not meant to be applied to ALL Mexican decendents and since I didnt say ALL there is no reason for you to get so butt hurt about it. I don’t fly off the handle whenever someone talks about Italians being in the mob. You and your kids are patriots, great, but that doesnt mean everyone is.