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Originally Posted by sapiens
I wasn't aware that we had an official language in the United States. If someone wants to speak Hmong, German, French, Spanish, Quechua, whatever in public they should be allowed to.
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Ok yes they should be allowed to speak what they want. One of the reasons given for the common mistake of the Hmong trespassing or failing to follow the hunting laws is that they aren't able to read the English langues (which most of the pamphlets and laws are written in) and they use their language as an excuse. I find that irresponsible.
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Originally Posted by sapiens
They should follow OUR laws and shouldn't open fire on OUR residents? Presumably the laws are theirs as well and they are residents as well.
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I meant OUR NATIONS laws. It's is OUR countries laws. A number of the Hmong community have said in a number of the local news reports in our area that "America's laws" are different than the laws of their home country. I only specified "our" in contrast to their "homeland's".
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Originally Posted by sapiens
I'm not sure that I would use some wacko who killed a bunch of people as a springboard to discuss all Hmong people in the US (or in Wausau) any more than I would use Specialist Jeremy Sivits or PFC Lynndie England to represent all of our soldiers working in prisons in Iraq (or fighting in the war).
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I never said anything about ALL Hmong people. I used the words "I tend to feel resentful of SOME." I askew generalizations (especially racial) so I was careful to not use collective words such as all, and never or always.
It just seems that the larger the number of this alternate culture that we get in our area the more problems we have. Wausau did not have much of a problem with gangs until the last few years. Also a number of years ago when the influx began people were reporting thier dogs missing. It came to light that the Hmong who were immigrating did not understand "respect for other's property", were stealing the dogs and eating them.
Honestly I lay much of the blame on the programs that are encouraging this immigration. The people coming to our area need to be educated to deal with a different culture than theirs. They will assimilate and succeed far better and more quickly if this was done. This would BENEFIT all those involved. I would not want them to loose their sense of culture. I simply want them to respect the culture which they are entering for refuge. Why not?