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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.

"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 am sorry for you and your small town and agree. The effects of immigration legal and illegal are overwhelming regions of our nation to such a degree that is unprecedented. But the Mexican illegals seem particularly hostile!

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.

The assimilation question, to me, is the most dangerous aspect of this debate. We have taken away the motivation to assimilate...if you can bank, vote, receive government services and otherwise exist her without speaking the language, we no longer have the factors that once motivated immigrants. This is no longer the single melting pot, it's casting an entirely different mold.