She has always been cute and classy. Top notch music, accessible in both English and Spanish.
But the Miami Cubans are "temporary Americans" in their minds, awaiting the day when they go back after the Castros all die out. I honestly think they have zero allegiance to this country, except as a stepping stone to their eventual return.
But the Miami Cubans are "temporary Americans" in their minds, awaiting the day when they go back after the Castros all die out.
Really?
After 51 years, as you have pointed out, I am surprised to find that they would be able to take on the rigors of re-migration, moving, and acclimating themselves to what is an all actuality, a foreign land.
In fact, considering the passage of those 51 years, one would think that most "Miami Cubans" (do your opinions not apply to Cubans in say...Madrid, or San Juan, or even Union City?) would now be not only American citizens by birth, but actually "natural born citizens"?
Why on Earth would they be waiting to go back to some country that they neither know, nor belong in?
Am I perhaps detecting a bit of "personal" animosity here?
If by "personal" one could include an entire nationality that is.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.; In memoria æterna erit justus, ab auditione mala non timebit.
Beauseant!
I doubt that very much. Do you think the Irish are waiting to go back to Ireland, too? I think most Cubans actually do the U.S. proud. If I was president I would end that stupid wet foot/dry foot policy. Anyone who turns a 57 Chevy into a boat to escape to our country, is welcome to it, in my mind.
Beats the Aztlan mafia that came in conquest!
Bay of Pigs Veterans Commissioned in the U.S. Armed Forces 1963
You will find my Bay of Pigs veteran uncle's "allegiance to this country" specifically outlined for you on pages 25, 101-102, 104, 107-108, and 118 in the book "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young - Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam".
My brother is a veteran of the 10th Mountain Division and my sister is a veteran of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
I served twenty years in active and reserve duty in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps although I did not drill to get retirement points because my medical practice as a specialist solo practitioner was not conducive to being away one weekend a month. (Translation: I put myself at risk for being called back during wartime, and I was called back during the Gulf War, but I did not expect any retirement money. As I told the Reserve pencil-pushing officer that did not understand why I was neither drilling nor resigning my comission, "I don't need the Navy's money for my retirement. But, if there is a war and you need me, I will be there for you.")
So, go ahead and think that Americans of Cuban descent have no "allegiance to this country".
Whatever floats your boat.