We haven't forgotten our Immigrant past; we just don't appreciate a government run invasion. I am also sick of being expected to assimilate to the culture of those who are being imported to my Country! There's something fundamentally wrong with going to a public place in South Florida and the English language is barely spoken.
Boy! Did I used to get that lecture from my grandmother when I started to pick up Sicilian from my grandfather, who was in the last years of his life and had started to talk in the native tongue again.
She was all over me like a hawk with the same admonition:
‘We’re in America now. Don’t listen to that crazy old man. We’re never going back to Sicily. Speak English!’
Brutal? You bet! We weren’t raised to be pu$$ies.
Ditto for me except that it’s Eastern Poland instead of Naples, Italy.