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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHaving a "discussion" with one of my former coworkers on facebook about the wall.
He says "our entire culture has changed because of illegal immigration", I called him out, this is a racist statement. This man has two disabled kids who get social security, he is disabled and gets it as well. He married a religious zelot, who has him thinking this is all about God. It is not.
I care about him a great deal but unfriended him.
Vinca
(50,237 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)No dice.
atreides1
(16,067 posts)These zealots only listen to the voices of their own pastors/reverends...I knew a few myself! Not friends anymore and I don't miss them!!!
anarch
(6,535 posts)I remember a bunch of stuff when I was a kid, about how it was all a "great big melting pot" and how influences from various cultures come together and blend with one another, and that's America, etc.
I always kinda thought "that's great; what do the American Indians think?" but whatever.
Taken from the perspective of the Indians, illegal immigration very definitely changed the culture.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Retired to a Southwestern city of about 20k almost all anglo's. Talk about culture shock,milk toast. Now living in one of the most diverse cities in the world. Lovin it,and now with a Dem controlled State and county Government,we will get our lousy School system fixed and our Homeless Families in affordable housing.
One of the first bills in the state legislature is,Medicare for all residents. And this is all because of our Brown Skinned Immigrants and their Political Clout.
bluestarone
(16,872 posts)You can't fix STUPID!!!!
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)MineralMan
(146,262 posts)And even the Native Americans migrated to North America, long, long ago. I remind everyone who attacks immigration of that. For me, that fact ends the discussion altogether.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Caliman73
(11,726 posts)Alien is a legal term that the INS uses. When people get their INS ID it says "Resident Alien" on it. So the right wingers pick up on it because as you said, it sound bad. Definitely "Other", weird, not of this place type of language.
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 11, 2019, 03:49 PM - Edit history (1)
and native tribes displaced other native tribes on various occupied lands for millennia before whipipo arrived to impose borders and property lines.
DBoon
(22,340 posts)How is this a bad thing?
Is he afraid of people who speaker languages other than English?
Does he believe there is some genuine American culture whose purity is threatened by people who weren't born here?
Does he suffer from the vapors at the thought of a taco truck?
maxsolomon
(33,252 posts)anywhere Latin Immigrants have opened Mexican restaurants and, god forbid, TACO TRUCKS.
Don't you like tacos, stupid white people?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)could prevent anyone they think is their lesser from getting something the con doesn't think they deserve, the world would be in harmony.
Birth control, abortion, welfare, due process, jobs, equal protection of the laws whatever.