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Immigrants are now flying their flags in our country and foreigners seem to be trying to change the laws here in America.

2007-02-03 16:15:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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America never had an "American culture/heritage" in the first place. When it first started, it was a collection of people from all over Europe, including Spain, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and all these other non-English speaking countries. Many Americans also have blood from Native Americans and Africans who their ancestors had children with. So, really, it's always been diverse. That's what makes it America. It's a collection of all cultures, changed a little bit to become what Americans want it to be.

2007-02-03 16:26:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Our national heritage IS diversity! How can you ask such a question?? Unless you are an indigenous American (native), your ancestors were immigrants!! The English settled the thirteen original colonies, but they, too, were immigrants. The French settled Maine and Louisiana; the Dutch settled New York (New Amsterdam). The Spanish settled Florida and California. Norwegians settled Minnesota, and Germans settled Wisconsin. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Ellis Island was their destination, many many disenfranchised Europeans emigrated to America, including the Irish, Italians, Russians, Poles (many of the latter two groups Jews). Chinese and Japanese immigrants moved to the West Coast, particularly California. Hawaii is a virtual melting pot of native Hawaiians, Filipinos, Portuguese, and other Asians. Africans were transported to this country as slaves, though currently others have immigrated here freely. Perhaps recent emigres may feel nostalgia and loyalty to their homelands; it does no damage to America if they fly their own flags. If you are obliquely referring to illegal aliens, that is a problem for the INS, one which is not being solved presently...

2007-02-04 20:12:34 · answer #2 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0 0

Isn't immigration and the cultures of immigrants what builds America and has been building America ever since it was born? Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights is based off ideas of the philosophers from France and the rest of Europe. Every single aspect and law of our country was derived from some foreign idealism. America is not really one single culture, it is a great combination of cultures that fuse together to form the U.S. of A.

2007-02-04 00:24:07 · answer #3 · answered by The FudgeMaster 2 · 1 0

lol you crack me up. I know you didnt just say immigrants unless your native american i dont think you have the right to call anyone from another country and immigrant. America will always be America. Its just that people get used to things and when change comes about its a problem. Right now minorities and women are getting opportunities that they would have never gotten in the past but to some people these minorities and women are taking their jobs.

2007-02-04 00:37:45 · answer #4 · answered by jason j 3 · 1 0

Personally i believe America will always be America (If that makes any sense?) I come from Australia and honestly believe we are starting to become too much like America.

2007-02-04 00:19:25 · answer #5 · answered by snazzy 1 · 0 0

it is but r we going to through thosein jail that hang up other flags besides the US?

2007-02-04 00:27:45 · answer #6 · answered by princess!!! 2 · 0 0

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