Originally posted by MSbklawyer
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The culture that I want to retain is to be able to speak to the average person in English and be understood; to be able to order at McDonald's in English and be understood;
I adapted. I learned enough Spanish as a kid in grade school and high school to get by here, and I'm glad I did. I'm continuing to try to learn more Spanish every day. I have lots of opportunities to practice my Spanish speaking skills where I live. I think it is the best course of action because nothing is going to stop immigration from Mexico, so I might as well prepare for it. Rather than curse the darkness, light a candle.
to be able to send my kids to a good public school with a rigorous academic program where they don't have to hire a special teacher for the kids who don't speak English
The public schools were broken long before immigration became much of an issue. The real problem with public education is the corrupt administration of schools and the teachers' unions, which could be solved by a voucher system where kids could go to any school-- public, private, even Catholic schools-- rather than just being stuck in the public schools.
I want it to be unusual, very unusual, for a girl to get married when she's 15; or to have two or three kids of her own before she's 18 by two or three different fathers.
That's a social change that really has nothing to do with immigration.
I want American law, not Shiara law.
The odds of America becoming dominated by radical Islamic laws is very low. I just don't see that ever really happening. Remember, most of the immigrants coming from Mexico are Catholic.
I don't want the neighbors having rooster fights or keeping goats in their back yards.
Oh, you wouldn't like living in my neighborhood, then. I have a goat, for goat's milk. Goats are really cool pets as well. Some parts of Phoenix still have a rural feeling to them.
Culture is hard to define, but it's easy to recognize. If you go to Mexico and go off the beaten tourist path, if you go to a bar that the locals go to, you'll understand immediately that you're in a different culture.
What do you mean by this?
Too, I guess I just don't understand why people want to leave their home, their native land, and go to a foreign country and once there try to implement the same policies, politics and customs in their new home that made their old home a place they wanted to leave to begin with.
Didn't the Puritans do this same exact thing? .
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