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The melting pot is becoming a salad bowl. It's a whole lot different when immigrants add something to the pot instead of overwhelming and replacing the basic ingredients of the pot. Illegal immigration is a good example of the latter. If millions of illegal aliens invaded China for example and they didn't restrict the number of legal immigrants they allow in not from their culture only a fool would claim that it wouldn't change the Asian fair/identity of their country. How is that a desirable thing?
The melting pot is becoming a salad bowl. It's a whole lot different when immigrants add something to the pot instead of overwhelming and replacing the basic ingredients of the pot. Illegal immigration is a good example of the latter. If millions of illegal aliens invaded China for example and they didn't restrict the number of legal immigrants they allow in not from their culture only a fool would claim that it wouldn't change the Asian fair/identity of their country. How is that a desirable thing?
Is it explaining the legal process to obtain Refugee status? I don't see an issue with that, we have a legal process for Refugees, therefore, explaining it is not criminal. No different than reading it online if you have internet access.
If you have an issue with the US Refugee program itself then that is another issue.
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Originally Posted by RhodyRepub
I think a majority of Americans would have a problem with the UN both encouraging illegal immigration, and outright funding it.
After all, we already got a Brandon doing that. We don't need the international community to pile on.
The u.s. is climbing the ladder in human rights abuses. Do you really think they would intentionally feed us more immigrants just so we can throw them into the poky when they get here --- ?
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The argument to reach the boundaries of a safe and abiding nation due to some victimisation or persecution in their home country becomes null and void when the "asylum seekers" bypass comparably stable nations to trek thousands of miles in difficult terrain to reach the United States. Panama is classified as a reputable nation on the international safety index with a higher ranking than even the US. It becomes clear what their actual motives are once they've bypassed the much acclaimed "Bridge of the World".
Also, those migrants do create a far larger imprint on the profile of America due to the landlocked proximity with the bi-continental area that so many of these people are coming from, with an estimated 42 million (https://cnsnews.com/article/internat...caribbean-want) expressing a willingness to move here. Short of coming from a nation like Guyana, they hail from a syncretised Latino background with the language of Spanish as their mutually binding tongue. The United States does hold itself as being distinct for its rugged individualist model, self-autonomy, and a socio-political charter that's fashioned itself after English Common Law and the Magna Carta in contrast to the Spanish and Portugese colonies who adopted systems akin to the French Napoleonic Code. Religiosity also has played a role in the shaping of our respective societies.
We have ethnic and regional variances in our culture due to its sheer scope in size and the plethora of varied populations cohabiting the same space, but there are, at least in theory, mutually binding elements that virtually everyone partakes in including free market commerce, a common language, engaging recreational activities, and a political system we practice which seems to be in the throes of a strident initiative to have it transformed.
Only if the u.s. Constitution gets shredded does that happen.
Don't be obtuse.
If you play by the rules and entice and inform illegal aliens to find ways to take advantage of our system, that is not the same thing.
Just like LaRaza which is a marxist organization in America was giving illegal aliens talking points to help create the best chance to stay in the country, when those things were not the reason they actually came, that is not right. Another words you come to America illegally and are going to say I came here for reason "A" which is honest, yet pamphlets say if you say that you go back. So instead say you came for reason "C" (which is a lie), and then you can stay, what do you think your typical illegal aliens will do.
And if a person can find the same information on a .gov website is that too taking advantage of the system?
They are still an Asian treat. You said yourself that they were created to celebrate a new Chinese restaurant. Unless you want to claim that they are a part of the American food fare of which they are not. Are they served with burgers and fries? Not last I looked.
They are from Asia, more specifically Japan, ironically. You can find references to the "tsujiura senbei" going back centuries and its selling in places like Kyoto.
As to American specific derived cultural aspects, what examples do people want? Pecan pie? Buffalo wings? Rock and Roll? You're not going to find an absolutistically insulated nation anywhere on this planet. Not even an historically isolationist country such as Japan was devoid of outside exposure; just look at the influence the Chinese have had in that country in the form of language, attire, clothing, and religion.
It shouldn't be used as an excuse to totally inundate a country with people from everywhere under the sun to its breaking point.
They are from Asia, more specifically Japan, ironically. You can find references to the "tsujiura senbei" going back centuries and its selling in places like Kyoto.
As to American specific derived cultural aspects, what examples do people want? Pecan pie? Buffalo wings? Rock and Roll? You're not going to find an absolutistically insulated nation anywhere on this planet. Not even an historically isolationist country such as Japan was devoid of outside exposure; just look at the influence the Chinese have had in that country in the form of language, attire, clothing, and religion.
It shouldn't be used as an excuse to totally inundate a country with people from everywhere under the sun to its breaking point.
Culture involves a whole lot more than food. I agree with you last sentence.
Culture involves a whole lot more than food. I agree with you last sentence.
Oh, I agree with your sentiments in general. I'm just pointing out that the argument some people make of America being home to foreign cultures isn't unheard of with others and that it shouldn't be used as a rallying cry for endless immigration. Not even the most ethnically homogeneous countries are immune to foreign acculturation but that isn't made into a rationale for the wholesale transformation of their societies.
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