Vince Neil Eats wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:17 pm
Metal Sludge wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 6:47 pm
Vince Neil Eats wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 7:41 am
That’s a whole other issue. From my experience there is a lack of interest in assimilating nowadays. People used to want to come here and fit in. Today they don’t have to because we accommodate everyone. Lack of a national identity destroys countries. We are beginning to see that now.
The US has never had a national identity, we are a melting pot, by definition. You do know what it says on the Statue of Liberty, right?
What national identity are you even talking about? Please answer this question if you answer nothing else!
Why does anyone have to assimilate? Why shouldn't we accommodate everyone?
It would be damn shame if we didn't have a Chinatown in most major cities, or any other ethnic neighborhoods. They are all fabulous!
What would you like the US to be? White and English speaking only?
White and English was never written or alluded to, although language is important. I love when people miss the point. Your assumptions were way off. Of course this country is built on a sense of diversity. I’m not saying immigrants have to cast away their culture as soon as they step on our shores. That has never happened in the past, nor is it possible. However, there has to be a certain amount of assimilation that takes place in order to respect our societal norms. If you don’t have assimilation you have a country of klans. That creates internal strife and division. There was more of an effort to do that by immigrants in the past. I’m not seeing that as much as I used to. I see it in my line of work. A profession I’ve been in for 23 years. I know people see the “speak English” rhetoric as racist, but the truth is that a common language unites people. Communication is essential to any marriage of groups of people. While our national identify may not be as deep rooted as other nations, we certainly have one. Much of it built on our belief in democracy, western rule of law, the idea of rugged individualism, capitalism.
White and English was never written or alluded to? In what alternate universe are you living in?
Our country was built on stolen land, human trafficking and slave labor.
Canada is much more united than we are currently and they are a bilingual country. Please explain how you reconcile that in your head.
The UK is literally made up of four different countries (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and they are much more united than we are as a country.
Immigrants aren’t our country’s problem and never have been. They’ve only been repeatedly and historically used as a scapegoat. You and I wouldn’t be here without our ancestors immigrating here somehow and somewhere down our familial line.
Eddie Van Halen used to talk about attending grade school in Pasadena. He would get bullied and picked on by the white kids because he couldn’t speak English and was half-Asian. He said a group of black kids in his class always stood up for him and protected him.
Why is it acceptable for Irish Americans to proudly display Irish flags, celebrate and be proud of their Irish heritage but it’s taken as a personal insult and affront by us here in the white community when Mexican Americans do so?
BTW, Vince Neil is Mexican-American, and always was the best and coolest thing about that clown show of a band he is in.