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To: 11th Earl of Mar
If legal immigrants come to America, start businesses, raise families and drive their kids to little league or dance class in their SUV's, it does not matter to me if they are from white Bosnia or brown India.

No, their skin color does not matter, but the extent of their assimilation does. Do they know the meaning of the 4th of July?, Thanksgiving?, Veteran's Day?. Do they know what happened at Bull Run, Yorktown, Harper's Ferry?

Or do they only know or care about their own history, traditions and culture?

Many studies indicate that too many modern immigrants don't have a clue about America's history, and that they can successfully live insulated lives within a cultural barrio of their own choosing; neither learning English or caring about the history of the country that gives them the freedom to do so.

Still worse are those, such as some Muslims, who come to feed off what a democratic Republic offers, while planning its overthrow.

I don't like Buchanan, but we must face the reality of what too much immigration, too fast, has done to our country.

The Democrats know, and they will exploit and encourage it until there is no more Republican party to speak of, or, for that matter, no Republic to speak of.

89 posted on 01/03/2002 11:35:59 AM PST by browardchad
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To: browardchad
When immigrants become citizens they must take a test that is very detailed about out history and government. How many immigrants know what Harper's Ferry was? About as many as our own teenagers do. How many naturalized citizens (they all started off as immigrants) know what Harper's Ferry was? I would say close to 95%, or about the same rate as someone who holds a bachelors degree in American History.
94 posted on 01/03/2002 11:42:20 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: browardchad
No, their skin color does not matter, but the extent of their assimilation does. Do they know the meaning of the 4th of July?, Thanksgiving?, Veteran's Day?. Do they know what happened at Bull Run, Yorktown, Harper's Ferry?

Or do they only know or care about their own history, traditions and culture?

Many studies indicate that too many modern immigrants don't have a clue about America's history

I agree more immigrants need to be taught American history. But in the same regard, we need to teach AMERICAN children our nation's history.

White suburban schoolchildren do not know who Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin are. How can we hold these immigrants to a higher standard than we have for our own children.

If we are to assign blame, we must look to ourselves and our school system that is not doing its job.

227 posted on 01/03/2002 4:05:50 PM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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