[Birdstrike]

"...it's just something to ponder on, that's for sure...."

Exactly. It's a potential policy option down the road that might just steamroll if we get seriously hit again.

[Smarti Pants]

Know what strikes me? My grandfather was Quebecois - during the 1900's he moved to the USA; my father was born in 1928. He never spoke his native language and would not teach it to his kids.

Why?

Because he said he was in America now. This was his home, and this language was what he'd learn & teach his children.

I find it particularly odd that many cultures of today don't adopt this same ideology - after all, isn't the USA the "melting pot" where many cultures became one? Now, we're "mutli-cultural" - I'm forgetting where we left off & where we've begun.

Am I not American anymore because I'm White, anglosaxon protestant, and speak English?

Sometimes I don't feel like I fit in...