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Old 05-11-2010, 10:43 PM   #78 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth
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I really don't know either Baraka.

What does it really mean to be American? Whats a foreigner expected to do?

Learn the language? Okay I guess I can see why speaking a common language could help us all out..

What else?

Attending baseball games and eating a hotdog?
Become Cowboys fans and drink Budwieser?
Reciting the pledge? Holding a sparkler on the 4th?
Buying a needlessly large truck, driving it to an even needlessly larger house and watching tv on a still needlessly larger tv?
Eating apple pie? Watching westerns? Get REALLY fat?

Aside from following the laws I'm not really sure what else an immigrant should be expected to do. One of the greatest things about the US (and a lot of other countries) is the ability to define how you want to live your own life, if somebody wants to speak another language and follow different customs more power to them. It has no baring on my life or how I choose to live it and in the end that's all that really matters to me. In other words its none of my business what somebody chooses to do when they get here.

As for the OP these stories usually just wind up being big, gusty, wind filled bags of hype tossed around by either side to illustrate a point. I would imagine the truth on this lies somewhere in the middle but I'm sure both sides will find every reason to dig out a ton of good old fashioned self righteous indignation over it. Meh, in the end everybody will get over it I'm sure.
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