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This makes for a strong, unified country. Like it used to be. You didn't dare act unamerican 20, 30+ years ago! You learned the language, and culture, and acted right!
This makes for a strong, unified country. Like it used to be. You didn't dare act unamerican 20, 30+ years ago! You learned the language, and culture, and acted right!
At least the immigrants work hard and seek to better themselves through higher education ... unlike the whiny Trump supporters waiting for their coal mines and widget factories to reopen.
At least the immigrants work hard and seek to better themselves through higher education ... unlike the whiny Trump supporters waiting for their coal mines and widget factories to reopen.
I thought all the immigrants did was work the jobs americans refuse to do. you need to get your absurd talking points straight.
This makes for a strong, unified country. Like it used to be. You didn't dare act unamerican 20, 30+ years ago! You learned the language, and culture, and acted right!
Are you trying to compete with Fordtrucks and BentBow for most threads created in a day?
I know plenty of foreigners that didn't know the language 20 to 30 years ago. How does one act unAmerican besides language?
This makes for a strong, unified country. Like it used to be. You didn't dare act unamerican 20, 30+ years ago! You learned the language, and culture, and acted right!
You were also probably smarter 20, 30+ years ago then you appear to be right now at this point in your life.
This makes for a strong, unified country. Like it used to be. You didn't dare act unamerican 20, 30+ years ago! You learned the language, and culture, and acted right!
That's a load of BS.
My grandparents came to the US around 1910. None of the 4 of them ever spoke English other than a few words. My parents (one born on a farm, one born in a medium sized city) didn't learn English until they were registered for school.
All of my grandparents worked; one set was farmers; the other side was a coal miner and his wife wove rugs for sale.
My mother was age 13 when coal miner father died; she was oldest of 5 children, the youngest of whom was 6 months old. Social services came to my grandmother's house and threatened to take the youngest 2 kids into foster homes. My mother quit school and went to work in a silk mill (hard labor)....she and my grandmother had to convince their parish priest to alter her baptism certificate to show she was 14 years old, the age at which she could legally work. My mother made sure her 4 sibling finished high school (a big achievement in the 1930s). Two went to college, one started a successful business.
My father was youngest of large farm family. His oldest brother died in the Battle of the Bulge. They lost the family farm, my father went into the coal mines where he labored long and hard; he died of Black Lung at age 78, rather old for coal miners back in the days before safety equipment for their lungs, etc.
Even when I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, English was not the first language at my local stores, delis, churches.
Both my parents worked horrible back-braking jobs so their kids could do better. We all went to college, we all succeeded.
English is not, has never been the official language of the US, nor should it ever be. It takes a generation or two for immigrant families to achieve the American dream. It should not be denied to new arrivals who have not learned English.
OP might have a point. All those Mexicans and Chinese with their Mexican and Chinese restaurants.
They should be making REAL American food like PIZZA!!!
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This makes for a strong, unified country. Like it used to be. You didn't dare act unamerican 20, 30+ years ago! You learned the language, and culture, and acted right!
Oh? And just WHO would you think qualified to write the book about "Acting right!" and just WHAT is to be considered 'acting unamerican'?
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