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For others who are not as fortunate to be able to migrate? I am not saying there is an obligation to build their country but it seems that they are not commited to their country. Why is this?
Besides, An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2 Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada.3
There is something about American air or water or... This country swallows the best backs and minds of the world and a few generation later ... it's something else, far from the originals.
well, if you judge by DSM-V ( proposed) it would be close to 50% af Americans having mental disorder... caffeine withdrawal is a mental disorder, too. According to proposed DSM-V.
The figure is unreliable. There is too much politics in defining what is and what is not a mental disorder. And disorder is not an illness.
They're all dead now and what has that to do with those of us alive today and our expectations "today"? For instance expecting immigrants to come here legally?
Not only is there arcalogical evidence to the contrary, but almost every culture has stories of "the people who came before"
As a species we are always moving, and no one people have been in any one spot "forever".
And many immigrants nowadays ARE too tied to their country of origin, and remain first dedicated to it. This has been our downfall. 100 years ago WHEN immigrants WERE helping to build the country (Irish building the railroad for example) they sought to integrate, or at minimum become mixed into the "gumbo of America"
Now... Moslems create entire enclaves/towns that are 'just like back home'
They're all dead now and what has that to do with those of us alive today and our expectations "today"? For instance expecting immigrants to come here legally?
as I understand those are the ones being discussed about - legal.
as I understand those are the ones being discussed about - legal.
I understand that but why mention those who came over on the Mayflower? They are all dead now. Are we supposed to speak for them and why they did what they did? They aren't us and we aren't them. This country was a wide open frontier then also. Not so today. Unless one comes here as a refugee because their lives are in danger IMO most foreigners should stay in their own countries and seek changes to fix them. We are full up here and are short on jobs and resources for own citizens. We certainly don't need any low waged, uneducated and unskilled foreigners migrating here who will end up being a burden to our country.
...Unless one comes here as a refugee because their lives are in danger IMO most foreigners should stay in their own countries and seek changes to fix them. We are full up here and are short on jobs and resources for own citizens. We certainly don't need any low waged, uneducated and unskilled foreigners migrating here who will end up being a burden to our country.
Not that you have anything against legal immigration of course. That is the forum area you are in. The opinion you offer changes by the discussion. You say you want more "ethnic diversity" (less Hispanics) in immigrants, but now say you want most of them to stay home.
Which is it?...
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