So much of it is just programming. It's what they've been taught. And trying to undo that is not an easy task. Giving up what their favorite teachers or mentors told them during the formative years of their lives would be synonymous with giving up their own identity. It would be a betrayal of those teachers/mentors. (I suspect it's the s…
So much of it is just programming. It's what they've been taught. And trying to undo that is not an easy task. Giving up what their favorite teachers or mentors told them during the formative years of their lives would be synonymous with giving up their own identity. It would be a betrayal of those teachers/mentors. (I suspect it's the same for many of us here, we just had different/better teachers and mentors that we listened to.)
I was struck in a recent team meeting at work. Otherwise intelligent and kind people - really, decent people - had the stupidest ideas I could think of. Like "we should have open borders b/c I mean that's what's on the statue of liberty." Just insane, stupid stuff. They're just repeating what they were told, like a recording being played back.
I throw them off by saying that to equate illegal migrants with my grandparents who were legal immigrants who had to go through hoops to get here is an insult to them and all immigrants who came here and who are still trying to come here. legally from other countries. Infact it is a slap in their face!! And. it makes a mockery of those who came through Ellis Island.
Those genuine immigrants came here to assimilate, learn the English language & become Americans.
These illegal aliens aren’t here to assimilate - most make no effort to learn or speak English.
Many of those who aren’t already felons/criminals in their country of origin come here to take advantage of our capitalist society but never really care to Americanize; in fact I recall seeing radical La Raza activists desecrating our flag, even removing it & flying the Mexican one declaring it superior.
When my family came here generations ago, the authorities misspelled/changed our family name and no one really cared b/c the goal was to become American. Everyone who was able (the oldest people in the family struggled) learned English. The 1st generation born here didn't even have an accent. This doesn't seem to be what's happening today. It's more salad than melting pot. The people who came here legally with the intent to assimilate and be American are not impressed by the latest wave of illegals looking for quick money and/or victims.
The pity is that there are so many good Latino first and second and third generation legally entered, hardworking, Latino and Latino Americans who will be mistakenly lumped together and hated because of those illegal migrants.
100%, RU. The long march into our universities takes full advantage of youngsters drunk on new liberties, new ideas, and yet still in need of adult guidance. So, they become groupies of radical professors and radical ideas that never work in the real world, and then entrench themselves as “visionaries.”
So much of it is just programming. It's what they've been taught. And trying to undo that is not an easy task. Giving up what their favorite teachers or mentors told them during the formative years of their lives would be synonymous with giving up their own identity. It would be a betrayal of those teachers/mentors. (I suspect it's the same for many of us here, we just had different/better teachers and mentors that we listened to.)
I was struck in a recent team meeting at work. Otherwise intelligent and kind people - really, decent people - had the stupidest ideas I could think of. Like "we should have open borders b/c I mean that's what's on the statue of liberty." Just insane, stupid stuff. They're just repeating what they were told, like a recording being played back.
I throw them off by saying that to equate illegal migrants with my grandparents who were legal immigrants who had to go through hoops to get here is an insult to them and all immigrants who came here and who are still trying to come here. legally from other countries. Infact it is a slap in their face!! And. it makes a mockery of those who came through Ellis Island.
Those genuine immigrants came here to assimilate, learn the English language & become Americans.
These illegal aliens aren’t here to assimilate - most make no effort to learn or speak English.
Many of those who aren’t already felons/criminals in their country of origin come here to take advantage of our capitalist society but never really care to Americanize; in fact I recall seeing radical La Raza activists desecrating our flag, even removing it & flying the Mexican one declaring it superior.
When my family came here generations ago, the authorities misspelled/changed our family name and no one really cared b/c the goal was to become American. Everyone who was able (the oldest people in the family struggled) learned English. The 1st generation born here didn't even have an accent. This doesn't seem to be what's happening today. It's more salad than melting pot. The people who came here legally with the intent to assimilate and be American are not impressed by the latest wave of illegals looking for quick money and/or victims.
Yes, substituting the salad bowl for the melting pot was a demonically clever way to undermine our culture.
The pity is that there are so many good Latino first and second and third generation legally entered, hardworking, Latino and Latino Americans who will be mistakenly lumped together and hated because of those illegal migrants.
100%, RU. The long march into our universities takes full advantage of youngsters drunk on new liberties, new ideas, and yet still in need of adult guidance. So, they become groupies of radical professors and radical ideas that never work in the real world, and then entrench themselves as “visionaries.”
"Visionaries" espousing failed, murderous, 70+ year old ideas, lol.
How to lose a culture in one generation.