Wow....is the only word that comes to mind about this..

[josh9mille]

Originally Posted by suicideneil

Indeed, I do feel the urge to point out that pretty much 99% of 'Americans' are actually immigrants; can you imagine what would happen if a real native American became president and said 'right you lot, piss off!' ? It would be.... interesting....

That is true, we are almost all immigrants. But just because we have always let anyone move here, does mean we should continue to do so. I mean we are full, the cup runeth over, stop overfilling the cup. We dont need more people here. Also the whole Natives and African Americans being pissed off at us for taking thier land or using them as slaves is getting pretty old. They need to get over it and forget about it. I didnt take thier land, I didnt use them as slaves, nor did anyone I know, and I know nobody alive today or even 100yrs ago did either. Its been 150 years or so since whites owned slaves, they should stop being pissed about it. End of rant

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by josh9mille

That is true, we are almost all immigrants. But just because we have always let anyone move here, does mean we should continue to do so. I mean we are full, the cup runeth over, stop overfilling the cup. We dont need more people here. Also the whole Natives and African Americans being pissed off at us for taking thier land or using them as slaves is getting pretty old. They need to get over it and forget about it. I didnt take thier land, I didnt use them as slaves, nor did anyone I know, and I know nobody alive today or even 100yrs ago did either. Its been 150 years or so since whites owned slaves, they should stop being pissed about it. End of rant

Just a joke cameltoe ;)

I can't really get my outrage meter up on this one. I live where there are a ton if immigrants from all over (Phiily/NJ/NY) and everybody speaks some level of English (as well as a million other languages.) It seems like it pretty much takes a generation to integrate, but most people get there.

Anymore English is becoming the defacto world language and the language of prosperity. If you don't speak it, you won't go far in the global economy or in the US. That's incentive enough for most 1st gen families I've met to push their kids towards English.

Problem is there are so many immigrants all at once, we're a bit behind on the integration clock. Its happened before in US history (such as the hated Italians/Irish/Catholics) and this too shall pass.