“Americans can’t many jobs because they can’t speak Spanish (to deal with the clientele), yet they are forced to fund the public schooling of the immigrants (whose parents often are either on the dole or working under the table).”
When I was a little kid, I spoke Greek with my mother, English with my father and French when I went out to play. When I was in high school I got jobs at a local jewelry store. I had to speak French “to deal with the clientele”! No French, no job! I’ve used that French, complete with a strong Montrealaise accent, all over the world, even in an Indo Chinese jungle drinking blood soup with Hmong tribesmen. I should think Spanish could come in handy too. Of course we are funding ESL classes here too. But the overwhelming majority of the immigrants here are NOT on the dole or working under the table. In fact, the percentage of welfare use among the immigrants as a group is a fraction of what it is among our local home growns!
As for food, well last night my oldest was eating “lobster poutine”. French Canadian food is one of the true joys of life! Even if the French is gone, the food is still here and now we get to eat Ethiopian sambussa with it!
America is changing and what these latest immigrants are assimilating into isn’t and won’t be the America our Irish old people fought to assimilate into...for decades and decades, really 100 years, after they left in the Great Hunger. I haven’t got a problem with that. Flexible cultures survive and adapt. Rigid, tribal cultures like those in Europe eventually get conquered.
Part of my family is from the Gaspe Peninsula; definitely good food in Quebec. Niagara Falls also had a great poutine place the last time I was there. The WASP American culture (which the Irish, outside of their faith, were raised with) isn’t being conquered; it is contracepting itself into extinction (as are the European cultures). I, as well as my children, speak Spanish (my wife is one of them); the country has to pick one language and work with it. Bilingualism doesn’t work and just creates division.
I know there are more whites on welfare than others, but poor whites can’t remain in my area; it simply isn’t safe. Our Welfarian population is primarily black & brown.