[garbanzo]

Here's the thing - no one has actually specified what these mysterious poisonous "third world values" are. It isn't religion. And almost all of the major immigrant groups here didn't speak English initially. Mexicans speak Spanish - a European language. Most come here and work and build stuff and write code and treat people who are sick and run shops and businesses.

Ok many of them prefer soccer to football but it is a free country and you're free not to watch sports at all here. So exactly what are the "third-world values" to which you refer?

[FITZ]

Third world values are the desire for a two class society ---the wealthy and the very poor. That seems to be where we are headed by increasing illiteracy rates and having a servant class. The people who consider themselves elite prefer this system, they like cheap help to clean their toilets, watch their children, make their beds for them. We seem very eager to eliminate the middle class, wages are actually falling in many places for what was once middle class jobs. Jobs that in the 50's could support a family with one-wage earner, obtain a home paid off in 15 years and a comfortable middle class lifestyle are now poverty jobs that provide no health insurance benefits, minimum wages and tiny raises if any, and a family that has to have food stamps and Medicaid.