To Cruz? That's a crappy choice. I'm pulling for Kasich to spoil it and keep either of those two from taking the nomination outright.
I'm actually with you on that one. I'm a registered Republican but I'm not entirely sure I will voting "Republican" when the time comes. I have never been less enthused about my options in quite some time. I just know who I don't want to see in office
To Cruz? That's a crappy choice. I'm pulling for Kasich to spoil it and keep either of those two from taking the nomination outright.
What's the diff? Neither has a snowball's chance against Clinton anyway, at least it is the lesser of two evils.......again. You'd think we would get tired of this movie.
Pretty sure I posted the first link below last year, and it was somewhat prescient on the struggles Trump is currently dealing with (although Silver did not foresee how much of a boost the staggeringly uneven national media coverage would give Trump with regard to increasing his performance in GOP primaries)
Pretty sure I posted the first link below last year, and it was somewhat prescient on the struggles Trump is currently dealing with (although Silver did not foresee how much of a boost the staggeringly uneven national media coverage would give Trump with regard to increasing his performance in GOP primaries)
There was a discussion going on in the End of Europe thread and it was said that the USA was doing a great job in assimilating our immigrants.
I've been thinking on that for awhile now ...
If we are doing such a great job, then why do we have to press 1 for English 10 or more times a day ?
Because assimilation works both ways.
Not to be a killjoy but assimilation (by it's definition) does not work both ways. It works one way. If you want to talk about "cultural sharing" or use another term to indicate how immigration influenced American culture... then that would be more appropriate.
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
Posted:
Apr 5, 2016 - 9:27am
Lazy8 wrote:
rotekz wrote:
Nope. Just one way.
As Saint Teddy was saying this there was a huge influx of immigrants fleeing pogroms in eastern Europe and rigid social orders and poverty in western Europe. They formed enclaves where they could speak their native languages and practice familiar culture. Some of them were my ancestors.
They assimilated just fine, thank you, but the rest of the country absorbed some of their culture and language as well. Teddy was right about one thing—those immigrants became fiercely loyal to the culture that welcomed them. He was wrong about how that happened, tho. He was a patrician representative of the old order, who thought that American meant only the kind of American he was.
Saint Teddy couldn't sense the contradiction between treating people equally and expecting them to be identical. He wanted the dominant culture—at the time his culture—to be able to bully all the others. He lost that fight. My ancestors and I are grateful.
