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Perhaps you should go back and re-read my original post so that you can comprehend the full context of my comment. As it is, what you posted was based on only a portion of my comment that was taken totally out of context.

I'm pretty sure I got the "full context" of your four sentence post. I assumed that when you said "...force the residents of the country to assimilate THEIR language" you were referring to the Spanish billboard that is the subject of the source article for this thread. It still seems a very reasonable assumption, though based on your response apparently you did not intend the reference. If that is the case, I can see why you thought I took your remarks out of context. However, since I think it was a reasonable assumption I don't retract my words.

I don't intend this as an apology, since I don't think I have have said anything worth apologizing for, but I honestly did not set out to offend you, and I feel a lot of sympathy for your original post.

Let me help you read a paragraph. Here is the second one in my original post:

I have no beef with immigrants and immigration, per se, the majority of us come from immigrant stock. But, if one relocates to a new country, one should do their best to assimilate into their new environment, NOT force the residents of the country to assimilate THEIR language, customs and traditions.

Note that I start off by stating, that (essentially) I don't really care about immigrants because most of us are descended from immigrants. I then go on to qualify the statement by adding that "if one" (an immigrant) "relocates to a new country" (i.e. comes to America), "one should do their best" (the immigrant should try) "to assimilate into their new environment" (to accept the customs, language and traditions of their new, adopted country) "NOT force the residents of the country to assimilate THEIR language, customs and traditions". So, it is NOT the billboard forcing anyone to do squat. It is the immigrants coming to a new country, refusing to assimilate their new country and forcing the residents to assimiliate THEIR language, customs and traditions. This is why we are forced teach ESL classes in schools and many schools are migrating to a policy of forcing American children to learn Spanish because the illegal invader kids won't learn English.

This is what the illegal invasion has achieved. It makes me feel like a foreigner in MY own country. McDonald's can do what they please to attract these people to buy their product. As one who is increasingly being put off by the Spanish language advertising that disenfranchises me, I neither have to nor will I support businesses that want to target non-English speaking invaders in my country.