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To: radar101

What IS the point of leaving 'there' to come 'here', then wanting to make 'here' 'there'??


19 posted on 07/16/2005 9:50:44 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: ClearBlueSky
What IS the point of leaving 'there' to come 'here', then wanting to make 'here' 'there'??

Ever been to a German beer garden in Texas or a Czech bakery in Nebraska?

The problem here is of course the unwillingness to integrate, not the desire to keep something of the "old country". Earlier generations of immigrants were more than anxious for their children to become Americans, albeit without completely losing their connection to the old country. For the most part they succeeded in the former, but had less success in the latter.

German immigrants kept their Lutheran, Catholic, or Mennonite religion, in the latter case they remain in fairly isolated communities to this day. However they were not actively hostile to the rest of us, even when the "rest of us" were hostile to them. You still see people in the Amish communities of Pennsylvania and Iowa who cling to the "old ways", and in the Mennonite communities of the great plains who only accept modern practices in their work (generally farming) life, not in their personal or religious life.

20 posted on 07/16/2005 10:14:03 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: ClearBlueSky

Conversion of all the infidels through terroristic means!!!


26 posted on 07/16/2005 11:36:11 AM PDT by SierraWasp (What other nation could spear a comet in deep space on independence holiday? God Bless America!!!)
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