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SAME thing they said with the Italian, Irish, Russian, Jewish and all the other immigrant groups that came before.
Same complaints, different groups.
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SAME thing they said with the Italian, Irish, Russian, Jewish and all the other immigrant groups that came before.
Same complaints, different groups.
The groups listed above by and large learned the language and worked to assimilate. They didn't come here waving their former country's flags and demanding the host population cater to them.
The groups listed above by and large learned the language and worked to assimilate. They didn't come here waving their former country's flags and demanding the host population cater to them.
They had all the same problems that we have now, and yes, they assimilated eventually.. that is the point.
They mostly lived in areas with their own kind, plenty of the elders never learned English.
It's all the same. History repeats itself, and those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
I'll be back if I can think of any other cliches.
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