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Old 11-01-2008, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Ok, this is somewhat tongue in cheek, but here's what the US should do-

-Invade Mexico and overthrow their corrupt, worthless government.

-Make Mexico a US territory, with English as the official language.

-If they still wish to keep coming to the US proper, at least they'll already know the language...
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Old 11-01-2008, 04:45 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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Ok, this is somewhat tongue in cheek, but here's what the US should do-

-Invade Mexico and overthrow their corrupt, worthless government.

-Make Mexico a US territory, with English as the official language.

-If they still wish to keep coming to the US proper, at least they'll already know the language...
What you described may come to pass-----------at least for Nuevo Leon and the other Mx border states.
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Old 11-02-2008, 01:20 PM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Michelle Malkin is a little disguisting woman. She hates her own people and throws them under the bus time and time again, pokes fun at them and you name it. It makes me sick to my stomach. I can't stand this woman

Also assimilation does not mean forgetting where you come from and forgetting about cultural traditions which people still hold personal. This is a melting pot society, a blend of many nationalities and traditions. This woman has identity crisis, because she doesn't know how to be an Asian American, she'd rather forget about her Asian part, which I'm sure she loathes!
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Old 11-02-2008, 02:25 PM
 
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Yes Dan, don't know if you've checked my other "rants", but I don't predict the end of the US; what I do predict (say in a few decades) is an increasingly Balkanized nation where life is hard and mean, and where there is no agreed-upon culture and no cultural or ethnic majority- a sort of a diverse collection of various minorities, something on the order of the former Yugoslavia. It will be held together by a sort of grudging truce, and we'll have to tread very carefully to avoid conflicts with our neighbors. Fascinating in a sort of science-fiction way, I suppose, but probably won't be much fun to live in day-to-day...
that's pretty grim. i hope enough of us will say "BASTA!" before it gets to that point.
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Old 11-02-2008, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Mesa, Az
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Michelle Malkin is a little disguisting woman. She hates her own people and throws them under the bus time and time again, pokes fun at them and you name it. It makes me sick to my stomach. I can't stand this woman

Also assimilation does not mean forgetting where you come from and forgetting about cultural traditions which people still hold personal. This is a melting pot society, a blend of many nationalities and traditions. This woman has identity crisis, because she doesn't know how to be an Asian American, she'd rather forget about her Asian part, which I'm sure she loathes!
Suffice to say: I do not relate to holding on to my ancestral traditions at all. My father is from Hungary and I do not feel any kinship with the ethnic Hungarians over and beyond any other culture. I am simply an American-------and, proud of it!
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Old 11-02-2008, 03:24 PM
 
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Michelle Malkin is a little disguisting woman. She hates her own people and throws them under the bus time and time again, pokes fun at them and you name it. It makes me sick to my stomach. I can't stand this woman

Also assimilation does not mean forgetting where you come from and forgetting about cultural traditions which people still hold personal. This is a melting pot society, a blend of many nationalities and traditions. This woman has identity crisis, because she doesn't know how to be an Asian American, she'd rather forget about her Asian part, which I'm sure she loathes!
I don't have an identity crisis. I'm an American. I really wouldn't give a rat's you know what if my ancestors came from some other country than the ones they did. Who cares? Would I be less of an American if one of my ancestors came from say Poland instead of where they did come from?

I'm not into where our long-ago ancestors came from, it's where we're going as a nation and any immigrant who really really cares about his culture, language and nation of origin ought to consider staying there.

After all -- there is nothing at all wrong with staying in your own beloved country, working to make it a better place, money isn't everything.
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