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Originally posted by auswegian
Why should immigrants adapt to American culture /language/etc anyway? I thought America was supposed to be about freedom and liberty and all that.
As for the flag and Uncle Sam, I hardly see how those symbols would offend any newcomers, from my experiences immigrants often take pride in the nationalistic symbols of their new homeland.
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if i can take a leaf out of the british book of imigration, you'll always have some bitchy immigrant who thinks that the tinyest little thing is offensive (remember the george cross on the traffic wardens hat), and because of the sheer stupidity of the leaders, they'll bend over double to try and sort this thing out so that this particular guy can be happy, but everyone else won't be. we've had councils ban the english flag because it was thought it might offend other nationalities (who were allowed to fly theirs).
immigrants shouldn't have to learn the language and culture, thats their right, but i have a big thing against them bitching when about our customs when they make no attempt to try and intergrate.