German,Irish,Polish,Mexican,Chinese.If you love your American culture you should in turn also love immigrants.If it weren't for them American culture would not be what it is today.Do you agree?
2006-08-12 15:26:54 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
agree.....Our diversity does set us apart from the rest of the world, and it is no coincidence we are a great country....
2006-08-12 15:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
When discussing immigration, that is a mute point.
A majority of the "immigrants" you speak of came here legally, and went through the naturalization process to become an American Citizen. How is this relavant to illegal immigration? No one is saying not to let any more people into the country from other countries. What most are saying is the immigrants coming in need to be LEGAL.
I love meeting people from different cultures, and I love what they bring to this nation. It's what makes the US great. But I want them to be doing so the lawful way, and that is by going through INS. Unfortunately, that means meeting certain criteria, and that also means only a certain number come in each year. But this allows the country to care for the people in its borders the way they should.
Did you ever think that maybe some of the deficit the US has currently is because its dollars are going to pay for things for illegal immigrants? Think about it - if you don't pay into the system, but require money out, you will bankrupt the system. Paying out more than you take in is a deficit. THAT is my problem with the state of the immigration (in the illegal sense) in the US today.
2006-08-12 15:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Assimilation works both ways, of course. However, the nationalities coming have been more diverse previously so that the incremental change to the home culture in any specific direction was much slower. And the home culture was constantly picking up bits and pieces of MANY cultures, not just big influxes of one culture. So America's culture was always uniquely American.
2006-08-12 16:54:37 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
that's my answer to all of your questions
2006-08-12 16:00:29 · answer #4 · answered by wheniawoke 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, everyone who comes here has the opportunity to add to the American Culture, but one difference between ours and just about every other nation-state on Earth exists: We are one of the first, if not the first, and if not one of the ONLY ones, that values Individuals above the State.
In Europe, especially, and more recently Asia, too, our culture differs because there is no caste or class system that you are bound to. You have the freedom to make of yourself what you will, through blood, sweat and tears, if that's what it takes, but usually hard work will suffice. And no mandarin, or potentate, or king, or duke, or tsar stands over us, ready to deprive us of our property or fruits of our labors just because he or she thinks he or she is better than us and deserving of expropriating our hard-earned property.
There's a line in the movie, "Gettysburg," where Lt. Chamberlain (played by Jeff Daniels) says to a group of formerly mutinous soldiers "dumped" into his care, something to the effect of, "Here, we bow to no man, and each is the equal of his fellow man." This is vital to understanding the power of America.
Now, recently, a lot of immigrants and a significant portion of the home-grown citizenry desire to make government ever bigger, and as government gets bigger, there seems to be a shrinking of individual rights and freedoms. That's a shame, but for now, we're still a nation that recognizes individuals as higher than the state. To change that would be to make us like every other country on the Earth, and that would be a shame, in my opinion.
So, to all the immigrants who come here ready to add your individual efforts to the mix, we welcome you. But if you're here to make this another tin-pot dictatorship where "pull" and favoritism trump hard work and sincere effort, please do us a favor and return to the cesspool you probably came from.
2006-08-12 15:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by flash_engineer 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Immigrants are the best as is our law abiding culture. There is a slight problem that many illegal aliens are claiming to be the next set of immigrants and trying to change our law abiding culture by blatantly ignoring our laws.
2006-08-12 15:30:30 · answer #6 · answered by remmo16 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who on this board doesn't like immigrants? From wherever? But, for a country to continue to be viable, we have to control immigration ... we have to make sure people who come here do so legally ... from wherever .... and meet the criteria all civilized nations put on their immigration requirements ... really, what IS so wrong about wanting to protect our country? To be able to afford immgration? To be able to budget for immigration?
It is a very moot point to constantly pretend it has something to do with race or ethnic background ... which every sensible person knows it doesn't ....
2006-08-12 15:51:26 · answer #7 · answered by Sashie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I fully agree. All that we ask is that the immigrants who come here do it legally. Fill out the documents and wait in line just like everybody else. We need to do this especially now that terrorists organizations like Al Qaida and Hezbollah have been caught smuggling people across the border from Mexico.
2006-08-12 15:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by nicole 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
no where i work every notice is duplicated in spanish, although we have philippino, polish, german and spanish speaking employees. the only people who are catered to even by insurance company and union officials are the spanish speaking. they will not make the effort to assimilate in their speech. special meetings are held in their language. no other immigrants expected the businesses, government, schools and others to change things to their old countries ways. they learned the ways of united states.
2006-08-12 15:43:50 · answer #9 · answered by greywolf 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
totally! America wouldn't exist if there were no immigrants. No matter where your from, every single person of every single ethnicity is woven into the tapestry of America. If there weren't any immigrants then i probably wouldn't be living in America since my ancestors came here from Ireland and Norway.
2006-08-12 15:31:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
True,but only the illegal mexicans have tried to TAKE OVER the country!
2006-08-12 17:28:05 · answer #11 · answered by sqwirl_hater 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋