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hold up pan, do you have this same level of contempt for everyone who breaks a united states law? in the most outstretched case: american citizens who speed? what about kids who played rock and roll? is this really just about disrespect for our "accepted" culture? that just doesn't seem logical...we do that all on our own. culture isn't a stagnant thing; it is constantly in the process of morphing. i think this has been stated many times before in the thread, but you are taking a pretty complex situation, erecting a massive strawman fallacy out of it, and then railing against the people who fall outside of "your side." its definitely an issue that needs to be addressed, but setting up rifles on the border? these are people man.
in general, you can't expect to have a huge economic disparity such as that between the us and mexico, for example, and expect people not to react to it. things are blending in together; and what else could you rationally expect with the economics of the situation, plus increased travel and communication. this is happening everywhere, and there's not much that can be done to stop it. better regulate it? yes. to me, its much the same issue as globalization, in general, and quite close to the situation with overseas sweatshops. turns out, we have some jobs here that we're not particularly crazy about doing. you might not like that, but given the wages that are offered for the jobs, and wages offered across the border, the current situation is entirely predictable.
so what if our country becomes bilingual? its still about conversation, and frankly huge parts of the states have a strong hispanic history to them.
jorgelito: i considered chinese. it might happen. i think that the differences between chinese and english / most european languages will slow that affect down in terms of international diasphorization for common language communication; but knowing asian languages would and is already a big bonus in international businesses. i suspect the same will be true and is true of middle-eastern languages as the power crunch starts to crank up.
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