Your comments are interesting.
I'll stick my neck out and respond with a "thank you."
Except for participating on funny or silly threads, I seldom post on FR unless I feel like I can add something to the discussion.
I've lived in the same small town (but within a half hour of a major city - Houston) for my entire 45 years and so it's given me a rare perspective for observing changes in this formerly classic small-town-USA community.
I don't like the effects on my hometown of this mass immigration movement, and the most destructive element I see is their lack of interest in assimilating into the existing culture. As a matter of fact, I will go so far as to say that there is a hostility to our culture and that many are proud and antagonistically determined to force their culture on us.
I studied spanish in high school and college, but, as much as I dislike feeling this way, am now finding myself more and more repulsed by the thought of speaking it.