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Old 09-10-2018, 10:03 PM
 
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Yeah, we kind of are accepting of other cultures. Heck, we even feature their foods in our grocery stores... go figure, huh?

Hard working family people are alway welcome here. We encourage it. And guess what, like me, they learn how to speak English (or French if in Quebec), and adapt to our country.
I'm accepting of other cultures. I just want them to stay in their own culture.

Maybe you don't know or don't care what it's like to live in a place that was all American and mostly white to within a few years be swarming with odd people yammering in foreign languages. And yes we have Spanish and muslim shelf space and real estate. I don't want to share my territory with these foreigners especially not the illegals. But you can have them.
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Old 09-11-2018, 08:33 PM
 
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To be fair, I think we should ship half of them to Australia.
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Old 09-11-2018, 08:48 PM
 
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I wonder how the original people of the Americas felt?
We know how they felt because they incessantly attacked and captured settlers. We don't have to kill or scalp illegal aliens today but certainly we should be within our rights to deport them and not have to provided them with benefits.
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Old 09-11-2018, 10:05 PM
 
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We know how they felt because they incessantly attacked and captured settlers. We don't have to kill or scalp illegal aliens today but certainly we should be within our rights to deport them and not have to provided them with benefits.
You want to guess were the First Nations peoples learned to scalp from in the Eastern USA.

Hint:

From the people who came over big sea in big wooden boats.
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Old 09-11-2018, 10:42 PM
 
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You want to guess were the First Nations peoples learned to scalp from in the Eastern USA.

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From the people who came over big sea in big wooden boats.
Not really. Europeans were never known to scalp. They first discovered it in the Americas. Some Indian tribes scalped their enemies from other tribes and the first European to have seen a scalp was Jacques Cartier. But none of that his really here nor there.
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Old 09-12-2018, 02:49 AM
 
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I wonder how the original people of the Americas felt?
They didnt. Its not like there was a collective group calling themselves "Native Americans" in the first place.
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Old 09-12-2018, 04:25 AM
 
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I'm accepting of other cultures. I just want them to stay in their own culture.

Maybe you don't know or don't care what it's like to live in a place that was all American and mostly white to within a few years be swarming with odd people yammering in foreign languages. And yes we have Spanish and muslim shelf space and real estate. I don't want to share my territory with these foreigners especially not the illegals. But you can have them.

Hazarding a guess here that you support Trump - I am not racist - I just want don't want anyone who is not like me around me.



This country was founded by immigrants who were often yammering in their own languages and we have a long history of immigration including friction whenever immigration numbers were high. The current situation is not new and those Italians, Irish, Germans, Polish, Chinese more recently - Iranians eventually adjusted and became part of our base. It is no different with the new would-be residents now.
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Old 09-12-2018, 07:56 AM
 
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They didnt. Its not like there was a collective group calling themselves "Native Americans" in the first place.
Yes, they prefer the moniker, "First Nations" which included Cree, Mohawks, Apalachee, Cherokee, Apache, Iroquois, Nipmuck and many others.

It doesn't matter what they called themselves, what matters is that it was THEIR land, and European immigrants stole it. They at the very least are owed compensation.
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Old 09-12-2018, 11:03 AM
 
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Hazarding a guess here that you support Trump - I am not racist - I just want don't want anyone who is not like me around me.



This country was founded by immigrants who were often yammering in their own languages and we have a long history of immigration including friction whenever immigration numbers were high. The current situation is not new and those Italians, Irish, Germans, Polish, Chinese more recently - Iranians eventually adjusted and became part of our base. It is no different with the new would-be residents now.
Just because we had immigration in the past and probably too much, doesn't mean we need more today.

Previous immigrants were similar culturally and ethnically western European, but today's immigration is non-Western and globally sourced and that is totally different. Latin America was founded by immigrants too. Why should we be taking immigrants from there rather than they take in immigrants.
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Old 09-12-2018, 11:23 AM
 
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Just because we had immigration in the past and probably too much, doesn't mean we need more today.

Previous immigrants were similar culturally and ethnically western European, but today's immigration is non-Western and globally sourced and that is totally different. Latin America was founded by immigrants too. Why should we be taking immigrants from there rather than they take in immigrants.
You know what?

The immigrants that founded Latin America were from... guess?

WESTERN flippin' EUROPE!
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