[Tanniker Smith]

Saw this, thought I'd pass it along for comments.

[Sam Cree]

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[nothingnew]

Saw this, thought I'd pass it along for comments.

Thanks for the post...There are so many great immigrant writers that I find on freerepublic...Valint...Baliysnov?...uhm, I can't remember how to spell his last name...I bet you know who I'm talking about...

The keen insight some of these writers bring from the repressed nations they come from reinforce my love of this country...

We all need to step back from our births here the USA, and look at our place in the world through a third person perspective...it's truly a blessing for us ALL to live here, but at times we can all be truly jaded at times...oh well,....HAPPY FOURTH ALL!

FMCDH

[fnord]

bump ... great post

[Kerberos]

"Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively."

Some years back I worked for a pharmaceutical company for a while. One of the women there had a picture hanging on her wall of a group of animal rights protesters, with their signs of how cruel it was to do testing on animals and the like. Underneath the caption read, "Thanks to animal testing these people will be able to protest for 23.8 years longer."

I would have loved to gotten a copy of it.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Dinesh D'Souza

We're really big on free trade too. Trade another like you for Hillary Clinton.

[mcenedo]

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[The KG9 Kid]

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[Tired of Taxes]

I just saw the above article posted on another forum, too. D'Souza wasn't an immigrant in the old fashioned way. He didn't come here with nothing and then scrape his way to the top. He had help from Americans - specifically, he received a scholarship from a Rotary Club when he was just 17. Then he went on to Dartmouth. His family in India wasn't poor by India's standards, either.

D'Souza is not an immigrant I would hold up as an example. Now the people who came here in the early 1900's... who had nothing and then fought in two world wars for this country and then still had nothing... THEY were the ones worthy of admiration. D'Souza just got a free ride.

[krb]

Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world: first from the Nazi threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism.

If you count the Cold War, then it's three times last century that we saved their butts.

[quietolong]

Read the book "MIG Pilot " Says most of the same things

[Sonny M]

Why is it that poor people from other countries seem to show more love for this country then many of the people who's families have been here for generations or more then some european immigrants? I've noticed in college where african students showed more patriotism then the african american students, or the kids from central america showed more patriotism for america then the puerto rican kids? Asians and Indians seem to show me so much more of their appreciation to this great land of ours then african americans and many hispanics (not including mexicans), etc. Why is that?