Do you really think they could transfer the American mind to their daughter, when they did not have it themselves? How do you know they did not have "American" minds? They came here and successfully made a better life for themselves and their daughter, did they not? What is more American than that?
It is impossible to cross a border and leave your alien ways of thinking at the border. And how, pray tell, do you know that this is the case 100% of the time? I had friends in high school and college who came here from Vietnam and Cambodia ("boat people"). They had given up any loyalties they had to their countries of origin even BEFORE they left, and they were/are some of the most loyal Americans I have ever known.
Becoming “Americanized” doesn’t happen overnight. It can. If a person comes here because they love this country.
If you moved to Mexico, how long would it take for you to imbibe all the subtle nuances of Mexican life? And loyalties? Irrelevant question. I am not planning on emigrating to Mexico. I am an American and a Virginian. My loyalty is to the Constitutions of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
PS - What does any of this have to do with Ann Coulter being off her game?
1.) I have read comments from people who live in South Carolina. They disagree with Haley, and will invariably start off by saying that they had ancestors who fought and died under that flag...
2. “Better life” There is more to a nation than just economic well being. Lincoln referred to... . “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land...” He was referring to healing the discord in the land. There are no mystic chords of memory with millions of immigrants invading the country. Look up the Balkans.
3. I would bet anything that Nikki Haley loves this country. She just has a different take on history. She has no mystic chords of memory with Southern history and tradition. It is not possible.
4. Alien ways of thinking. Assimilation. Historically, that has been the case. Now it is the exception.
5. Immigrating to Mexico? Conceptual thinking. I was only trying to show the dynamics of immigration and the perspective of immigrants. I have been in the presence of immigrants who sneer at America (are you familiar with LaRaza), and I have been in the presence of immigrants who love America.
Like everybody else on this site, I make comments that I believe. But I cannot, like everybody else cannot, expound limitlessly on what I am saying. About 25 years ago, I wrote an article for a college class about multiculturalism and I predicted what is now taking place. Some students read it and said, yeah, yeah, that’s right, then a few would frown, and say...what you say.
“How do you know they did not have “American” minds? They came here and successfully made a better life for themselves and their daughter, did they not? What is more American than that? “
We have all sorts of illegal vermin from Central America who do the same thing.
Can you really believe that that means they are ‘more American’?
Better think about what you type.