Posted on 08/03/2010 2:33:01 AM PDT by flowerplough
Tomasa Bulux (BOO-loox) speaks Spanish to her children, maintains an altar at home representing her Mayan culture's view of the world and meets once a week with Mayan immigrants who speak her indigenous Quiche tongue.
At the same time, she's becoming a part of the diverse, cosmopolitan city she lives in. Her Guatemalan dishes share space on the table with experiments in cooking Thai or Arabic food. She's fluent in English and socializes with her European-American husband's English-speaking family as much as with other Hispanics.
Bulux (BOO-loox), 42, an immigrant from Guatemala, is hardly alone.
An Associated Press-Univision poll shows that a significant percentage of Hispanics believe it is important to hold on to their unique identity even as they work to blend into American society. That dual view of their cultural space — a strong sense of heritage and a desire to embrace the United States as their home — challenges perceptions that a growing Hispanic population poses a destabilizing threat to national unity.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Is that what they're trying to say?
Why would anyone have a problem with this? Don't Americans play Irish music at home, eat Italian food at home, and so on?
Assimilation is about the community--people are free to do whatever the hell they want culturally in the privacy of their homes.
when the #&^% did we become’ European-American ‘ ?
I am an American. First, last, always.
No hyphen involved
“I am an American. First, last, always. No hyphen involved.”
You and me both, friend.
I agree--I always describe myself as American--but the majority maintain their connections to their past. Just because I think it's silly doesn't change that fact. And if someone wants to practice traditions in their homes that connect them to their pasts, that's their business. I see many FReepers posting about their connections to past relations they've never met, so it certainly isn't some esoteric behavior.
There are a LOT of Mexicans where I work. They have NO desire to “blend in” or to become Americans.
I am white and have lived in Europe six years during my adult life. I guarantee you there is a difference between Europeans and Americans and I am NOT European-American. This is liberal, leftist claptrap.
And what does they say of us *mongrels* who have indigenous blood as well as European. They are practicing what they accuse us of doing.
She speaks Quiche.....
Does she also speak Brie and Neufchatel?
Methinks the author meant to appropriate the term “Quechua”, a language spoken in Peru and Bolivia; I smell satire here.
Mexicans I knew twenty-five years ago did drive their families to learn English and assimilate. I am not so sure that is the case now.
K’iche is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala.
Ping...
K’iche’ language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The K’iche’ language (Quiché in Spanish, Qatzijob’al or “our language” to its speakers) is a part of the Mayan language family. It is spoken by many K’iche’ ...
Exactly, precisely. I don;t see what the big deal is here.
Generally, in two or three generations, immigrants intermarry to such an extent that they no longer have any cultural identity aside from American - which is a good thing.
But its not unreasonable to understand that new immigrants and perhaps their children, feel there is a need to maintain some kind of cultural attractiion to where they came from.
As long as they learn our language and owe their primary allegiance here, what’s the big deal??
As a matter of fact, Mayans may speak Spanish and come from Mexico, but they aren’t Spanish. They’re Mayans.
Huge problem with that theory although it might have served not too long ago:
The article also stated that the percentages are lower among younger people. Here, So Cal, the illegal population is so high here they almost cannot avoid the influence of liberal politics and alien attitudes toward the law and other cultures. As a consequence you see tons of young US born hispanics using their status as an alibi for being punks. Dangerous punks.
Add to that the fact that many of their parents (illegal) share most of the views of the criminals, trusting them more than they trust us "outsiders", plus the fact that many US born parents have romanticized their familial roots; and your generalization falls apart.
Some of them figure it out in time, others don't.
Having a heavy rap sheet following you around does not help either and US born bad guys don't get deported. The first trip to jail provides them with an advanced course in hatred and "La Raza" so the problem only gets worse as standard procedures try to contain it. I'd be interested in seeing the incarceration/crime rate numbers with US born hispanics included into the illegal numbers.
The bottom line is that immigration from mexico and South America is not bad in itself but welcoming unconstrained waves of miscellaneous people, whose first act is against our laws, is courting disaster and repudiating those who want to come here legally.
All that said: I know lots of hispanic kids who do have the right kind of parents and who I'd stack up against the best in any environment.
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