Ok Americans....?

Question

I was just reading the hatred filled answers to a question which looks was asked by an illegal mexican immigrant. I am soo soo surprised that americans who think they are the best species on earth can be so fickel minded. I mean i like america for it being the bastions of free world, but some of you guys who think it is ur brightright to pass racist remarks i would like to ask you, where do you think u came from??? We all know native americans are an extremely small community today and where all the 'americans' came from. What gives you the right to abuse somebody so much just becoz he didnt come with your forefathers on the santa maria? God i dont wanna sound rude like some of you do. But for christ's sake stop treating everybody else like scum.
You are probably undoing all the work 'americans' did to make it such a great nation.
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Pls read some of the hate filled answers to this seemingly innocent question-
Should I wait until my son is older to tell him that he is...?

:-) nice to read so many point of views. I guess i now understand the problem a li'll better. Thanks to all you nice people who cared to explain it with so much patience and kindness. With so many nice people around, i am sure US will keep rockin. I wud request everybody to read wat eutychusagain has written. Sorry my ratings are not good enough to give you a thumbs up, but guys i think this dude deserves a few of em.
>lol but look at the number of thumbs down i've got for the question lol jk
Bye guys and God Bless America :-)
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C.J.D im reporting you for what you have written. And sprakler..grow up dude.

Answer 1

are you Oprah? anyways, stop the hatred....

Answer 2

i_luv2play,

I"m sorry that you have had to endure the sight of such hatred, but I don't think that you should be surprised that Americans can do that. While I enjoy being, and am grateful for being, an American, I have found that others do as you have seen Americans do.

We see today a very real prejudice between Sunnis and Shiites, for example. It has existed between tribes of Arabs for many centuries. There is suspicion between Koreans and Japanese, too. I have talked with Americans married to Asians of all kinds, and there seems to be an Asian xenophobia in every country on that continent. When I spent two wonderful years in Britain, I saw how badly the Indians were spoken of and thought of there. Try talking to many Mexicans about their Indian (different kind of Indian) heritage, and you could very easily get an angry response "There is NO Indian in a Mexican!" (I have heard this). The ancient Romans despised just about anybody else, and guess who invented the word "barbarian" but the enlightened ancient Greeks, who thought that anyone who didn't speak Greek could only say "barbarbarbarbarbar." Chinese didn't mind conquering anyone who was not Chinese, and walled themselves off from those (especially the Mongolians) who repaid that compliment, the Japanese closed themselves off from everybody not Japanese--and sometimes thought of others as subhuman. How many tribes in Africa hate those of other tribes and attack them? I've lost count, but it started a lont time ago. Just before the Aswan High Dam was completed, paleontologists on the border of
egypt and Sudan uncovered an 11,000 year old mass grave (they called it "Cemetary 117") of 55 men, women, and children who had died violently. Some of hte children had multiple arrow points in them. One had 22. Attackers had simply used a baby for target practice.

This has been going on for a very long time.

So I'm afraid that what you have discovered here is the American version of a human condition. I fear that what you see in the responses that you rightly deplore is simple self-centeredness. It really isn't anything that is unique to America, it is something universal in humanity. We fear and hate the stranger.

Now, I think that your question has one possible important consideration in it: sine everybody here came from somewhere else (even the Indians migrated here over the Bering Strait land bridge during one of the Ice Ages), we Americans of all people ought to know how to treat the newcomer and stranger, and like you, I am frustrated that so much of the time we do not.

Not all of us are like that, of course.

But the problem may be a little more complicated than your question seems to believe it is, for if a country has the right to "control its own borders," and to decide woh gets to be a citizen and who doesn't because it has the right to decide what its nature is and will be, then the reaction to those who try to come in against our laws by right ought to be to deport them.

OK, but your question has buried in it the very right thought that at the least we would treat these people with respect and not hatred..I fully agree.

But in order to do so, we have to overcome many centuries of attitude that seem to spring from a natural reaction to the stranger, a reaction buried in our human psyche, a reaction that is in every people on earth.

That will be a very great job, and I'm not sure it will every realy be done. We can only fight it in ourselves, and then confront it in others. That will take all our lives and the lives of our children to a thousand generations. It is the right fight, however, and so we must never give it up.

You are part of that fight, and I thank you for being concerned as you are. You might, as any good soldier would, want to adjust your tactics a bit to include the entirely human part of this problem, and that part of it which is a bit closer to home. IT is there, too. But it is the right thing to do. May you never lose heart, and may you make your world an accepting place for all to live.

Answer 3

i live in america but am from venezuela and am half italian..... i have never personally received insults of any kind but i do understand that some americans can be prejudice against some people such as the mexicans

Answer 4

You are right up to a point then It is our country and our laws and the mexicans are not above our rules and laws and the ENGLISH that we speak and why should I learn their jargon as it is my country. They demand and never has this happened or just masses of people it is as if mexico was cleaned out and brought to ameriica.They brought their own rules and want to change america ,,,NO WAY>

Answer 5

Well Miss I don't know what country you call home but there are bound to be at least some racists and arrogant people there as well. America, like every country, has citizens who are proud, some who are arrogant, some who are tolerant, some who are hateful and racist, etc. There are good and bad apples everywhere.

Answer 6

We or our ancestors came here LEGALLY there needs to be a process so the Mexican gov. doesn't just encourage the lowest of their society to jump the border. the hate comes from the frustration we have that nothing is being done.

Answer 7

Wow...I dont understand why so many people are against you on this...I assume they are just all upset and fired up about something else so they are taking it out on you...PEOPLE!! She is AGAINST racism...dont call her a racist. She didnt say a single thing about immigrants, so stop with that arguement. I know from experience that alot of white people do think they are superior, and I think we can all agree that that is just not right. So why are so many people argueing against the asker?

Answer 8

I think it is very narrow minded and uninformed of you to lump all americans into one category based on the immature, ignorant posts of a few. The one thing you should teach your son is not to judge people as a "group" as you have just done.

Answer 9

i was born in america , as is all of my family on both sides, but i know what you are saying , however i think most americans are neglectful lazy, selfcenterd and take life for granted, talk to someone from a diffrent county and see the way they live they are greatful just to be able to eat, as for americans we are greatful for the places that are 24 hrs so we can get a quick bite

Answer 10

It may not be our 'birthright' but it is our civil right as protected under the constitution of the United States (I assume that is what you mean when use refer to 'americans' - North Americans)

Answer 11

My ancestors came here LEGALLY. That is the difference. I am all for immigration as long as they follow the LAW.