Illegal aliens: who is assimilating whom?
Check out “Lost in Translation or Lack of Understanding?” by Beth at Blue Star Chronicles. Here’s a teaser:
Another group of illegal aliens who were protesting today were being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera. Bless his heart! He was carrying on about how ‘patriotic’ they were.
Meanwhile, they were saying things like, ‘I’m here to support MY people’ and ‘We have a RIGHT to the American life like everyone else.’
MY people? Who are ‘MY people’. See, what this person didn’t understand is that if you want to assimilate into OUR culture - we are your people. AMERICA is your people. Red and yellow, black and white. WE. The People.
And RIGHTs? What rights? You are illegally in this country. You have no rights as citizens. You certainly don’t have the right to push to the head of the line. What about the people who have been playing by the rules and going about obtaining citizenship properly? Are they to be just shoved aside so that you can have your ‘rights’. Rights to DEMAND the rights of a citizen? A citizen who knows that using public welfare costs money to SOMEONE. We understand that because it comes out of our paychecks. Every single paycheck. AND, we don’t qualify to receive those services - we just pay for them.
ASSIMILATION
“My ancestors moved to America to become Americans, not to hole up in little enclaves where they could live their entire lives without learning to speak a word of English.”
I have had to the opportunity to minister to legal and illegal aliens through church. Their biggest problem is that they refuse to assimilate into our culture. As an example my wife is Hispanic and her maternal grandparents immigrated from Mexico. Even though Eva is third-generation American, she never learned English until she started grade school. In fact, her grandparents would scold her for speaking English. That is not the way for an immigrant family to raise their children, yet it is the norm rather than the exception for immigrants from Mexico.
Don’t they realize that the only way to move up is to assimilate? I don’t insist on speaking Gaelic because one ancestor immigrated from Ireland in the 1700s. Neither do I insist on speaking German because another ancestor immigrated from Germany in 1848. My ancestors moved to America to become Americans, not to hole up in little enclaves where they could live their entire lives without learning to speak a word of English.
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