Posted on 05/22/2002 1:11:41 PM PDT by Commie Basher
Above is from a Leftist website, but it's worth reading. Apparently, the US military is heavily recruiting in the East L.A. barrios -- and the Left is worried. (You hope to build a "Chicano" resistence movement to return California to Mexico, and they off and join the US military).
If so, then this is an encouraging sign, IMHO.
Yes, I am sure Senor Garcia, that when male Latino high school students are asked whether they would like to join the Marines or major in queer studies, they are overjoyed to learn that with Senor Garcia's help they can pursue the second alternative.
AlterNet, Ah feel yore pain...
Or if they get a visa to work, do so and go HOME! Unless they want to try and come legally. Why is Mexico allowed to flood us over other lands that play by the rules?
That aside!
The Mexican culture is a heavily family oriented one. Most are Catholic Christians.
Point is, at least they are mostly good people to begin with and values like serving in the military makes sense. I am not surprised by that nor that the left is crying over it.
Great find!
Besides that...this is a personal observation because my husband is on recruiting duty, the white middle class kids are not enlisting in droves. I think because their parents don't like the idea of them serving their country. My husband has run into that and I've heard other recruiters tell stories of white middle class kids not telling their parents they had joined till the day they shipped out because their parents were not crazy about the idea. My husband has even had a mother tell him that their son did not need the Army because they had plenty of money.
If that is indeed the case, then it's good news. But if the effect will be having more leftists in the military, then it's not the Left that should be worried!
It's partly the upper classes' prejudice against those who take "the King's Shilling" being some sort of reprobate (a longstanding Anglo-American prejudice). It's also the fact that these parents are boomers, and they don't like the idea of their kids "sellin' out to DA MAN!"
My husband has run into that and I've heard other recruiters tell stories of white middle class kids not telling their parents they had joined till the day they shipped out because their parents were not crazy about the idea.
I see it a lot. Some of the neighbor kids know that I'm ex-USMC, and they ask me what it's like, and it usually comes up that their parents don't think much of Marines.
My husband has even had a mother tell him that their son did not need the Army because they had plenty of money.
The only reason we can sleep soundly in our beds is because rough men stand ready to perform violent deeds on our behalf.
George Orwell
As can be seen from the article, leftists do not join the military, because they're too involved in "queer studies."
Leftism isn't genetic, believe it or not =:o)
These folks have chosen a tough way to EARN a place here. I respect that, and I am all in favor of it. I'd rather they learn the values taught by the military than the ones that Mr. Garcia would have them learn.
LOL Capitalists exploiting workers, recruiters preying on immingrants ... nothing new under the sun.
"We Chicanos don't need no steenkin' military. We need queer stud-eees, and maw welfare. And we need a few more bafrooms in da school. They prey-eeeng on us with dere offers of jobs and stooopid college etcha-ca-shuns."
The liberal mindset is pathetic.
"No Comprendo Drill Sergeant," does not go over well.
Personally I think that two years in the military should be mandatory for citizenship.
a.cricket
IMMIGRATION - MILITARY SERVICEJust as failure to abide by the Selective Service laws can result in a denial of future benefits, performing military service can produce benefits. People who have served for a total of three years in the US military and who, if no longer in the military, were honorably discharged, are exempted from standard residency requirements if the naturalization application is filed while still in the military or within six months of discharge.
If they ever figure out how to make a fresh carne asada quesadilla in an MRE container, I'd go for it...
had a GI--Mexican American Spanish teacher---quite a few were WWII vets...
he was a machine gunner---
said when he was in France he visited a sister of girl friend back home...
she unrobed---dressed in front of him...
he was still blushing...
two diferent persons---culture!
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