Heh. What area? That kind of thing is very uncommon where I live now - Toronto - which isn't a surprise given that about half the population in this city are born outside of Canada.
On the flip side, I visited Taiwan a while back and got asked several times by people if I knew a Canadian they had met... just because I was from Canada. What's even more stupid is that Canadian they met often was in another city halfway across the country. I'd remind them that Canada has over 30 million people.
There was another point to that article that should be noted (despite its perhaps overly dramatic style).Speaking as a white American, all I can say is that majority rules. This country is set up (for right or wrong) to be inclusive of all foreign cultures. We'll take anyone and for the most part allow them to be themselves. But with that inclusion to outsiders comes the duty of assimilation. It is YOUR (and by "your" I mean any race or culture, not just Asian) responsibility to fit in and if you choose to remain an outsider to THIS country then you will be treated as an outsider. It's that simple. We have too many different cultures mingling here to expect anyone to try to adapt to them all. The foreigners who complain that we do not adapt to them are just as guilty. You never see African immigrants embracing the culture of the Samoan immigrants and the Russians don't try to understand the Koreans. And nobody wants anything to do with those darned Canadians.
You have a wide variety of choices. You can keep your culture, you can adapt to this one, you can straddle the line and you can stay wherever you came from. Whatever floats your boat. But to come here to take advantage of the opportunities here and then whine that here is too much like here and not enough like "there" is hypocritical. If you want to be an American, act like an American. If not, it's your choice.
I think just growing up is kinda rough. Kids don't hesitate to make fun of people for having a different skin color, talking differently, not wearing what everyone else is wearing, etc.
Speaking as a white American, all I can say is that majority rules. This country is set up (for right or wrong) to be inclusive of all foreign cultures. We'll take anyone and for the most part allow them to be themselves. But with that inclusion to outsiders comes the duty of assimilation. It is YOUR (and by "your" I mean any race or culture, not just Asian) responsibility to fit in and if you choose to remain an outsider to THIS country then you will be treated as an outsider. It's that simple. We have too many different cultures mingling here to expect anyone to try to adapt to them all. The foreigners who complain that we do not adapt to them are just as guilty. You never see African immigrants embracing the culture of the Samoan immigrants and the Russians don't try to understand the Koreans. And nobody wants anything to do with those darned Canadians.
You have a wide variety of choices. You can keep your culture, you can adapt to this one, you can straddle the line and you can stay wherever you came from. Whatever floats your boat. But to come here to take advantage of the opportunities here and then whine that here is too much like here and not enough like "there" is hypocritical. If you want to be an American, act like an American. If not, it's your choice.
A couple reasons why America sucks is right here folks.Speaking as a white American, all I can say is that majority rules. This country is set up (for right or wrong) to be inclusive of all foreign cultures. We'll take anyone and for the most part allow them to be themselves. But with that inclusion to outsiders comes the duty of assimilation. It is YOUR (and by "your" I mean any race or culture, not just Asian) responsibility to fit in and if you choose to remain an outsider to THIS country then you will be treated as an outsider. It's that simple. We have too many different cultures mingling here to expect anyone to try to adapt to them all. The foreigners who complain that we do not adapt to them are just as guilty. You never see African immigrants embracing the culture of the Samoan immigrants and the Russians don't try to understand the Koreans. And nobody wants anything to do with those darned Canadians.
You have a wide variety of choices. You can keep your culture, you can adapt to this one, you can straddle the line and you can stay wherever you came from. Whatever floats your boat. But to come here to take advantage of the opportunities here and then whine that here is too much like here and not enough like "there" is hypocritical. If you want to be an American, act like an American. If not, it's your choice.
Being an American doesn't mean abandon everything else you knew about where you came from or your heritage. For most first generation immigrants, it means fitting into American culture while also appreciating your own heritage. I guess that's a hard concept for some to grasp.
No, the hard concept to grasp is that most of us don't give one tiny mosquito shit about your culture. It's a two way street. You don't give a shit about the Ethiopians culture, the Samoans culture, the Peruvians culture or the Turkish culture. You have not the slightest bit of concern about them and how they fit in, but expect sympathy about your own personal travails. Not going to happen.
You're free to keep your culture, nobody confiscates sombreros, vuvuzelas and bamboo slippers at the border. So quit whining about how tough it is. EVERY immigrant faces the same thing in EVERY country and has since the beginning of time. It's the way the world works, you adapt to the new surrounding, not the other way around. You're not special and your experiences are neither unique nor unbearable. Literally billions of people have managed to do it successfully.
No, the hard concept to grasp is that most of us don't give one tiny mosquito shit about your culture. It's a two way street. You don't give a shit about the Ethiopians culture, the Samoans culture, the Peruvians culture or the Turkish culture. You have not the slightest bit of concern about them and how they fit in, but expect sympathy about your own personal travails. Not going to happen.
You're free to keep your culture, nobody confiscates sombreros, vuvuzelas and bamboo slippers at the border. So quit whining about how tough it is. EVERY immigrant faces the same thing in EVERY country and has since the beginning of time. It's the way the world works, you adapt to the new surrounding, not the other way around. You're not special and your experiences are neither unique nor unbearable. Literally billions of people have managed to do it successfully.
I am the 1st American born of Greek immigrants in my family.
As far as I'm concerned, I am American. And, the family I raise will be American as well. It will be up to them to decide if they want to retrace their roots.
Do you speak Greek? If not, did your parents try to teach you?
^Exhibit A of America's welcoming arms. "Make sure you adopt my culture, but f your own!"
It makes America such a welcoming place to new immigrants to meet people like you.
Well...if all youse damned ferriners would jest stay in yer own damned countries instead of coming to the US of A...and polluting our pure bloodlines...
I have a shit-ton of relatives on reservations. They hate all of you...yellow, black, white...perhaps the whites the most of all.
Racism isn't exclusive to whites
The only thing uniting the various cultures was a burning desire to be American now.
And a burning desire for sex. I bet a lot of those people are Norwegian/Irish/Swedish or Polish/German/Finnish mutts by now.
Lol thank god America's immigration policy wasn't built by you.