Thomas, those who purposely ask such ignorant questions make me wonder if they are really that ignorant or are they simply stupid. Because ignorance can be cured, stupidity not so much.
The majority of Americans really care little about where someone comes from or what color they are, what the majority cares about is the embracing of American ideals. Religious freedom instead of attacking and shouting down those who disagree with you, shouting you have no right to offend them. Actually in this country you have the right to be as offensive as you wish to be. No one has the pay attention to you, or on the other hand we can tell you what an ass you are, but no one has the right to attack the person who is offensive. That is a single example. And it is why people don’t set each other on fire in the street over religion here like has happened more than once in India. It is inappropriate to encourage behavior that leads to the opposite of the religious tolerance that is a hallmark of this country. We may not have done it perfectly but we have managed way better than other countries.
It is also inappropriate to encourage the breaking of our laws. It is also inappropriate to encourage people in this country to divide up among themselves by color. It is a misnomer to believe that this country started out as a monolithic culture to begin with, it never was. It is why New York was so different from Pennsylvania from Virginia. Perhaps the only thing in common the Dutch had with the Scots-Irish was Calvinism. It was the very essence of tolerance that allowed these diverse cultures to live together as well as fight together in order to secure those ideals that were and ARE uniquely American.
Those that don’t want to buy into that should take their hinny back to wherever they came from. And those who are Americans that don’t buy into it should remove themselves to one of those countries that have the ideals of dividing by tribe or perhaps like France where if one group can’t have their beliefs in the open than nobody can.
I descend in part by Germans who came here in the 1880′s along with millions of other Germans, no one can deny that those millions of Germans had a very definite impact on American culture, particularly Christmas, but they did not do so by refusing to become Americans. When I was 10 and asked my great grandfather to teach me how to speak German I got a lecture instead. We were AMERICANS, not Germans and I had no need to learn that language.
Early Progressives divided people by race and embraced eugenics. Modern day Progressives do the same thing, the means are different, but the outcomes are the same.
