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To: hispanarepublicana
Simply having a neighborhood full of Hispanics does not a barrio make.

True.

Some of us actually have managed to learn English, even, in the last 300 years our families have been here.

Ah. So you are Americans and your families have become part of the melting pot mosaic of America which has enriched our heritage and helped make America an interesting and vital place with a diverse and energetic culture.

I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home.

72 posted on 01/27/2006 9:31:26 AM PST by Skooz (Modesty hides my thighs in her wings)
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To: Skooz
I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home.

Except most Latin American (it is far more than just Mexico) immigrants aren't like that, they do assimilate. I grew up and have parents in one of the front lines of all this, Houston. Over the years their neighborhood went from almost all white to majority Hispanic, with otherwise very little change. Still a quiet, low-crime, middle-class neighborhood with the same well kept yards. Life is good.

78 posted on 01/27/2006 9:45:57 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Skooz
I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home

I felt sure you were, but it was unclear with all the talk of "Hispanics" rather than "Illegal Aliens." I think the latter rather than the former is a more accurate term for the group you mentioned above.

95 posted on 01/27/2006 11:18:11 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (Chuck Cooperstein is a tool.)
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