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To: Sols
No. I don't.
Then again, I didn't write this.

BTY congratulations for being the first to spin negativity in this.
3 posted on 11/30/2005 11:09:15 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

I'm sorry, I couldn't read through the ridiculous formatting and historical inaccuracies to divine the awesome source of this op-ed.

The author is operating on a number of false pretenses:
- That there is a rash of immigrants complaining about Christmas. We can agree this is patently false with little debate, I think.

- That there is some great American identity or culture. Does a farm town in Oklahoma share the same culture as a block of flats in New York?

- That there is some inherent goodness to an intractable culture. If one exists in the first world, it's news to me.

- That the America we live in was born from immigrants he doesn't disagree. But somehow that immigrant culture has reached its pinnacle, and now any new cultural shifts are wrong? Or something? I'm not sure what he's getting at here. Those immigrants were different because.. ?


5 posted on 11/30/2005 11:21:51 AM PST by Sols
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