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America will assimilate them? Not the other way around? Oh boy. I do think this conversation is over. Let’s drop it.

Where I come from, there were many people who came from old countries and were very appreciative to have a hope for a good life, and made it work.

They spoke German, Polish, Yiddish, Italian, and they did not allow their children to speak anything but English. It was considered a bad thing to do. they opened up delis with their own type of food, and they fixed and built things according to their talents.

And they educated their kids. they went to ball games, and participated in the communities.

There was bigotry and hatred but it was wrong. There was never a question that American Culture would prevail.

The Irish had so much trouble at one point that, coming from the old country, no one who had an education could hope to do anything more than building, or police and fire work when they got here.

And they educated their children and grandchildren, and all of that is forgotten. All cultures had that story from one degree to another.

on the Lower East Side, the Jews settled. There and in Brooklyn. They gave us composers, entertainers, our comedy culture, and it was not Russian, it was American, as in Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”.

You have ethnic food, stories, traditions, gifts from all over the world in America.

anyone who says this deal, where an American student living in America has to go to court, taking time off from nursing school, or to take time off of nursing school to learn another language in her own country is not looking at this in a way that considers reality of the situation. Not the future of the situation and does not question the logic, not the history of immigrants assimilating into this country.

This is not going to go well, and If it’s not rejected it will turn out very badly.

When I go to another country to live, I take the time to learn the language. Period. and I’ve done just that.