Posted on 03/07/2005 6:49:07 AM PST by Pendragon_6
LOVE IT...be sure to post pics for us if you can! :)
(Reminds me of the "77 Virginians" joke posted on FR...lol)
Hehehehehe... There is room for improvement though. I'd give him a McDonald's Happy Meal in place of the Virginia ham. The other kids will be envious. 8-)
Huge problem to America. Especially in law enforcement, solving of crimes, etc. when a person doesn't even speak English.
Huge cost when every social service and gov't operation needs translators.
agreed
BTTT
Just think of the ATM fees alone. You have the ATM usage fee AND then the conversion commission AND foreign country use fee.
I believe VISAcard had some trouble a while back because they were charging as high as $20.00 to use your ATM card in another country outside of the US and Canada (a wholely owned subsidiary of USA, Inc.).
Now that is funny.
Fortunately, most children of immigrants understand the "culture of fat and happy" and don't buy into this nonsense.
Again, the real risk comes from our universities getting a hold of these people.
If they were all so big into the melting pot mentality then why did they form neighborhoods like Chinatown, Greektown and Little Italy. The fact of the matter is people hang out with their own kind, always have and always will, and so long as they can function with others it's no problem.
Yeah, and I'm the "Lord High Ectomorph of the Fledgeskum Ministry of PopTarts." I want my own toaster and want the gov't to pay for it.
What a jidrool.
Sounds good to me!;)
please provide an after action report, it sounds like fun.
A couple of hundred years ago, anybody caught performing a Satanic ritual aboard a ship probably would have had to walk the plank!
Because when you come to this country speaking a different language at a time when you weren't welcome you stuck together in order to survive. Back when ethnic ghettos formed, it was because that's the only place they could go. America is a BIG place and can be very lonely, and it was back in the day.
Agree. Immigrants should make special efforts to assimilate. The "new guy on the block" is always looked on with some suspicion at first; if he makes an effort to "get along", he is usually accepted. Same with newcomers to our land. Problems arise when newcomers make no effort to assimilate, disparage the existing culture, and want you to accept their ways. Contrary to what the pc crowd would have you believe, all cultures are not of equal merit! I don't want to change my culture since I feel comfortable with it. I thoroughly enjoy "exploring" other cultures and will quickly adopt parts of another culture which I find to be superior to mine.
Perhaps they didn't form these neighborhoods by choice but were pushed into them? The immigrants that I know maintain some of their heritage and welcome American traditions. Of course, then we have to decide what are American traditions. I don't think this is about traditions such as dress, music ,etc. It's about abiding by the laws of the country and learning to live there. Not forcing the country to adapt to your ways.
It hasn't gotten any smaller. And it's still just as difficult to adjust for someone new to our culture and language. And immigrants still run the same pattern today, first generation finds a neighborhood of their own kind, 2nd generation starts spreading its wings more, and by the 3rd generation they're fully integrated. The difference is now we have a mass media so you can find out about that 1st generation without having to go visit their neighborhood.
It doesn't help that there are Americans who have a vested interest ($$$$) in the non-assimilation of immigrants. My parents never had a problem, especially my mother who had the advantage over my father's family of speaking english.
I think there are a lot of people who make it their business to tell people not to assimilate. I don't get it though.
Those neighborhoods were, and still are, the smart place to go for people fresh off the metaphorical boat. Think about it, you're new to a country, know next to nothing about the culture and only a little more about the language, where should you go to give yourself he best opportunity to adjust with a safety net of being able to fall back to your old ways when necessary?
Only the most extreme multiculturalists want adjustments in laws, and they're all morons. Most multiculturalists are looking for nothing more than to remind people it's a big and highly varied country we live in, and you can have a lot of fun expanding your horizons. 90% of the multicultural events in this country revolve around food, and other than the associated heartburn you tend to get mixing food from too many different countries in rapid succession they pose no threat to anyone.
Back in the day, immigrants kept some of their identity from the old country, but never stopped striving to be more American...including first and foremost: learning American English and generally trying to live the American dream. What resulted was an endearing mix of both that enriched this country more then homogenization or balkanization ever could.
These days, so much is different...too much. Learning the language is neither a priority nor a particularly urgent necessity, and as you have said, the focus has seemed to shift from bringing family hear to sending wealth back there (wherever 'there' is).
It's a subtle but critical difference.
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