That is, are they willing to identify themselves as Americans foremost and Mexicans by heritage alone. I have no problem with Hispanics, I do have a problem with an apparent unwillingness to drop their native tounge (Puerto Rico excluded obviously).
I just think Americans should come together rather then drift further and further apart.
2006-07-16 06:46:45 · 25 answers · asked by collegedebt 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Lets say the good ones do.
2006-07-16 07:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Typicly not. English is very hard to learn due to it's diversity, and origins.
Education levels play a big role in the assimilation as well. Most latian imigants don't have any formale education. Acceptance off the law. In Mexico The government, the law, and the elite pray on the lower class, so if there is know honest respect for the system. That opinion is carried here as well. Last but not least the unwillingness that is projected from Americans of all oragins for that asimilation to happen. We destroy any thing that we don,'t understand, to include the bridge to acceptance, and tolerance.
2006-07-16 14:31:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats the big problem as I see it. I live around a tremendous number of hispanics and I deal with a lot of illegals. Most of the ones I talk to...yearn for the day when they can go back home to retire. They work here and draw from the system as long as they can....send money back home to the relatives...(the second largest source of hard US currency to the Mexican government second only to oil and gas sales) The relatives usually put some of the money towards a peice of land or a home and prepare it for when the illegal worker earns enough to retire on. Most have no intention of staying and becoming US Citizens.
2006-07-16 13:53:18 · answer #3 · answered by werk2much2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like you - I have no problem with them if they become Americans of Mexican heritage. Once they become a citizen, they become an American - not a Mexican. If they want to jabber in Spanish, let them do it in Mexico. If you live here - you need to learn and speak the language - not insist upon such things as bi-lingual education. Either embrace being an American or go back across the border.
2006-07-16 15:15:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually what would happen if U.S.A. and Mexico had a war only then can we really know. I think most want the benefits of being an American while remaining true to their real country. America is nothing more then a place to make and send money home.Also all the free benefits also inclines more people to come and stay
2006-07-16 14:07:15 · answer #5 · answered by Zoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was born and raised in South Texas , i grew up and went to school in a 80% Hispanic community , all of my friends were and still are mostly Hispanic , and of course I'm just speaking for Texas but i think we should move the border off the Rio Grande River and put it on Red River to keep all the lefty communist bullsh*it and all the northerners who think they know how things operate down here out of our great state and out of our hair , were in a different world down here and we could careless whats happening everywhere else
2006-07-16 18:52:37 · answer #6 · answered by Hippie Hunter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the US willing to commit English language acquisition classes for new arrivals? Living in New York, I noticed that there are so many people who have been on waiting lists for English classes. These immigrants, from all over the world, have such a desire to learn English---but the resources are very limited.
2006-07-16 13:51:56 · answer #7 · answered by kobacker59 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which One? There are several styles which Americans base the way they live according to heritage,religion, morals political views,etc.I personally think if everyone were the same it would be a tragedy. I'm not willing to commit to the way allot of Americans live and I am one.
2006-07-16 14:06:27 · answer #8 · answered by gidget lil bit 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. If you remember some of the Cuban and Mexican demonstrations in streets, I think that they're much more inclined to favor their heritage. What I don't understand is why anyone would come to this country and not adapt - why not just stay where they came from in the first place?
2006-07-16 13:52:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. If immigrants do not adapt to the American way of life, we will become more divided as a country. Keeping your heritage is great, but you are now in American. Adapt or go home. Americans DO NOT have to adapt to immigrants.
2006-07-16 13:51:58 · answer #10 · answered by Made in America 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The illegal immigrants are the worst immigrants we have ever had, they are rude, uneducated and illiterate, they are Anti-American, I heard when they crash into the World Trade Center all of Mexico applauded, they are traitors before they even come here, This is the way they feel, this picture says it all.
http://www.daylaborers.org/
2006-07-16 15:18:57 · answer #11 · answered by hexa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋