Immigrants and American culture
1) Thomas Sowell, like many other right-wing conservatives, believe that immigrants refuse to adjust to American culture and are taking American jobs. BULL-DUNG!
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/04/11/193239.html
Here's my message to Thomas Sowell
You keep claiming that current-day immigrants aren't adjusting to American culture.Then why do I keep hearing immigrant teenagers rap along with the SAME EXACT RAP SONGS that are on the top of American music charts? Why do I keep hearing those same songs blasted out of the car stereos of many immigrant teenagers?
Immigrant teenagers probably know more about 50 Cent, Eminem, Kanye West, Fat Joe, Lil Jon and Ying Yang Twins (all important American cultural icons of this decade) than you do! So dont tell me that immigrants aren't adjusting to American culture.
It's the right-wing conservatives who are having trouble adjusting to modern American culture! Maybe they should be the ones deported!
In your latest article, you said that the pro-immigration crowd is being abstract?Excuse me?Immigrants are real people with real aspirations! They're not just some folks with wierd accents! They are real people, many of whom I know and respect! So dont give me this crap about "pro-immigration advocates being too abstract!"
You used to hate victimhood and the entitlement mentality! Yet, you are demanding native-born Americans to act like victims and act as if they're entitled to jobs. Many native-born Americans can only qualify for low-paying jobs because many of them were bullies who picked on nerds and irritated their teachers during their childhood and adolescent years! So excuse me, if I have no pity for them if they got to compete with 3rd world immigrants for low-paying jobs!
What next, do we deport Yao Ming because he is competing with native-born Americans for NBA jobs? Maybe we should stop importing music from British rock stars since they take $$$ that could've gone to American rock stars instead!
And maybe your parents should've stayed in North Carolina instead of moving to New York and taking jobs away from native-born New Yorkers!
You use to hate government bureaucracy and red tape, yet you demand immigrants face government bureaucracy and red tape that is far worse than the IRS, Dept of Motor Vehicles, etc all combined!
PS: The European explorers didn't have green cards or visas when they arrived in the Americas! So why should Mexicans have green cards or visa when they move to land that was once part of Mexico!
2) Jews, Italians and Irish were once looked down by British Americans! Many British-Americans said that Jews, Italians and Irish couldn't become real Americans, that real Americans practice Protestant Christianity and not Catholicism or Judaism.
Yet, the descendants of Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants are Americanized to the point where they can't understand their ancestors languages! Yet, many of them still practice Catholicism or Judaism. But many are now looking down on Latino and Arab immigrants, saying nearly the same shit that British Americans used to say about them!
They complain about pro-immigration protesters waving Mexican flags, but are silent about Irish flags waved during St. Patrick's Day parades. They claim that waving Mexican flags is a proof of disloyalty to America, yet they get pissy when non-Jews complain about Jews showing excessive loyalty to Israel over the US.
Pat Buchanan, Tom Tancredo, Mike Savage - the previous 3 paragraphs are about YOU!
3) In a recent edition of Time magazine, there was an article about Asian-Americans who are in their 20's now. ALL were born in the US to immigrant parents
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1147177,00.html (to read full article, find the 1/16/06 edition of Time in a public library)
Guess what nearly all had in common. They rebelled against their parent's cultures when they were teenagers
I bet you, within the next 10-20 years, Time or Newsweek will profile the children of Arab immigrants. And guess what? They will all rebell against their parent's cultures when they were teenagers! And Arab teenagers have a disadvantage those Asians 20-something years old DONT have. Those Arab-American teenagers looked like the 9/11 attackers, so even more they'll be outcasted by mainstream American. And that will motivate them to REALLY REBEL against their parent's cultures when they become teenagers!
However, the anti-immigrant fascist will ignore all that! They'll assume that immigrant teenagers dont rebel against their parents
And here's an article on Cambodian-American gang members who were deported!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12169557/site/newsweek/
The vast majority of alien Cambodians who are subject to deportation have little to no recollection of their native country, having been evacuated to the United States when they were children. Many don’t even speak the Khmer language or have living relatives here, and some were born in Thai refugee camps and have never set foot on Cambodian soil. Instead of civil war and “The Killing Fields,” they grew up with MTV, McDonald’s and Ronald Reagan.
They were so Americanized that they struggled to fit in when they moved to Cambodia! Similar issues have been raised about Salvadoran gang members deported to El Salvador!
