Saturday, September 20, 2025

On Immigration

What's the issue with immigration? We're a nation of immigrants right?

I was born in 1948 so I've lived through a lot of years in this country. During the 19th century and early 20th century immigrants came here and merged into the existing American Culture. Those were the days of the great Melting Pot when various races and ethnic groups went in one end and Americans came out the other. People didn't completely erase their heritage but it was mostly a private thing in the home. They certainly did not want to change the American culture.

But today it seems different. Some groups, rather than merging into the existing culture, seem to want to change the culture and make the country more like where they came from. 

Muslims seem to be especially guilty of this. Hispanics as well. One of the biggest mistakes we made was providing Spanish language forms and interfaces. No, I DO NOT want to press 1 for English. Learn the goddamn language.

Here's a news flash, they left where they came from because the place was terrible. They came here because it was better, but now they want to make things here like the terrible place they left. And you wonder why we're resisting that? WTF is wrong with you?

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