Posted on 05/12/2006 5:37:44 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
You just signed up you come on and post this thread and you call me a liar. INTERESTING!
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I just keep wondering if we should not apply ourselves to making Mexico and Haiti fit to live in, somehow. Forget the rest of the world and pay atention to our neighborhood.
"... you don't really become an American till your willing to shoot a few old country blood sousin's..."
My maternal grandfather signed up in the Army the day after America declared war on Germany in 1917. His parents, German immigrants,were horrified by what he had done, and never spoke to him again, because he had been disloyal to the Kaiser. He rose to the rank of Battalion Sargeant-Major in the 340th infantry. The flag from his coffin is one of my proudest possessions.
This is true in theory, but in practice, the 3 scientifically classified "races" have become blended and diluted (one can even point to the black-haired Irish as an example of this) so that finding people who actually fit the 3 gentically classified "races" is a rarity, especially in America.
My dad's best childhood friend was a blue-eyed, blond kid whose name began with "Sch". This was during WWII, and this poor kid got called "kraut" and was picked on and beat up incessantly in the school yard. My dad felt sorry for him, stood up for him, and they became friends.
The pot of Americans:
pure water, bacon grease and cooking oil. It settles out in layers based on density.
It only melts together when things are hot and the pot is stirred.
Communications technology, cheap travel, and efficient distribution of products have created links back to "home countries" for immigrants. These links didn't exist 100 or even 60 years ago.
Conversely, the spread of a global popular culture didn't exist even 20 years ago.
And that was exactly my point and think many American understand ..that from the original English settles that started in 1776 on... there comes a time that new American's .."lose there Hyphen"
....Just FYI one of my favorite WW2 story's (not sure if it's true or BS) is when the first American Fighter groups went to England in 42 ...They decided to have a joint "Get to know each other" meeting with the local RAF group ... they started off the meeting by introducing each RAF office ...they then started introducing each American office, but the American's had played a little prank....They had put all the American's with German names at the head of the line...then the Italian names... then any other Axis Nation name etc., etc..... supposedly they introduced maybe ten or so German name American's before one of the Brits spoke up (in good nature) about the "Blood Luftwaffe had landed"
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