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My Family, after moving to this Great Country, never talked about “becoming Spanish” here, or “becoming Irish.” Maybe Sotomayor should read Teddy’s words a little more closely.
My grandparents came over in their 30s with a bunch of kids in tow and never learned to speak English because of where we lived. I grew up bilingual. Other than our religion and some ethnic food, we all were determined to be Americans, exactly in the sense that Teddy called for. My grandparents never discouraged this, even though it was easier for them to just keep on speaking their own language.
My grandparents also had “Latin” souls and there isn’t anything more “magical” about them than any other souls. Stupid racial mysticism is all that is. Of all the things Germans (another part of my “soul”. I got “souls” comin’ out my *sshole) invented, that was the worst of them.
