Quote:The early immigrants took generations to assimilate, as you point out. But they came here because they saw the US as a better place. They wanted to become Americans to the best of their ability. To use Italy as an example, they did not aspire to be Italians living in the US. They did not demand that everyone learn Italian. They did not demand that schools teach classes in Italian.


 

For many groups there is no assimilation. A majority of Muslims in the US still want Sharia law observed, including 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation Muslims. They are NEVER going to assimilate.

And it's not just assimilation. Nowadays, many of the immigrants come here to get what they view the US owes them. They don't want to be Americans, they want to take back what they perceive as having been stolen from them by the US. I heard a very eloquent speaker at a graduation ceremony basically claim that the US owed it to the Mexicans to let them immigrate. Owed!

 

I was going to make a similar point.  My mother's side of the family came from Hungary and Germany.  Both her mother and father's families immigrated after WW1.  They came here to make a better life for their families.

 

My great grandfather actually died in WWI.  While he was fighting the war, my great grandmother actually took his place working in a bank in Szatmar.  After he died, she took the money she had saved up from her job, and she moved along with her sisters and brothers in law to the US, entering Ellis Island with my grandmother who was a toddler at the time.

 

When she got to the United States, she tried to get a job working in a bank, but it was a man's business at the time, so she went to work with her sisters doing custom tailoring for Saks 5th Avenue.  She did that for several years while raising my grandmother as a single mother.  She told us when we were children, before she died, that her greatest moment of pride was when she and my grandmother became citizens of the United States. To her, that meant everything.

 

My grandfather's family came from Germany around the same time.  They were brewers in the old country, and brought their skills to work here in the US.  NY had dozens of breweries at the time, and they were among those who came here with nothing, started working in the breweries, and worked their way up to the point where they could provide a home for their three kids, all born here in the US.  They worked themselves to death, literally.  They wanted to be a part of the American dream, and they were determined to do whatever was necessary to make that happen.  They never had much, but they instilled a work ethic in my grandfather that allowed him to go to college, get the first degree in the family, and then graduate from Fordham Law.  He practiced law for more than 60 years before he passed away.  You always could tell that he and his siblings, who all went to college, had a certain work ethic.  All were successful in their chosen professions, but all lived very modest lifestyles. 

 

In both instances, when the families arrived here, their entire focus was not necessarily on assimilating, but on becoming a part of the melting pot that the United States had become.  And in both situations, they did exactly that, and with great pride.  They loved their adopted homeland, and worked their tails off to become a part of it.  They learned the language well enough to manage, but they maintained many of their cultural beliefs and customs.  My grandparents wound up settling into a neighborhood in NY that was mostly German and Italian, and very Catholic.  We used to love going up there because they had some of the best European restaurants I've ever been.

 

The point is, while the first generation didn't fully assimilate, they did work towards that end.  It's always toughest on the first generation arriving here.  They have to deal with the biggest degree of culture shock.  But, unlike the immigrants who came here in the 19th and 20th centuries for a better life, what we're seeing with the current crop of immigrants in certain sects is that they refuse to adopt that same mindset.  They're coming to the US for the trappings, but they've got no interest in becoming part of that fabric.  You've got Muslim communities that want to be left to their own devices, including how they govern their people, and want nothing to do with US laws or cultural norms.  You've got Mexican immigrants who refuse to learn the language, and who demand that we adapt to them rather than the other way around.

 

Quote:http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/15/leaked...influence/

 

Same guy who paid for "Occupy" and other publicity stunts and paid riots.

 

He's using the Cloward/Piven-like strategy of disrupting/destroying establishments by overloading their systems, so he can use his money to influence/control the "new" establishments.  You weaken what you want to overtake.

 

I just outlined to you how he's beat the radical left to the punch.  The cult claims to be "the" voice for LGBT, women's rights, and freedom from religion.  If they are, then they'd back a vetting process that would ensure those who are against those rights are not accepted, which is exactly what Trump's is.

 

If there's a way to finance chaos and crisis that will benefit him economically, Soros won't hesitate to take advantage.  He is doing everything he can to bring us to a progressive utopia where he's pulling the strings.  Both Clinton and Obama have sold their souls to this man.  Sounds like they're already snuggling up to the son to keep that gravy train flowing.  They're not even trying to hide it anymore.  Kaine spent time with Mini Me Soros recently. 

 

Quote:Milo nailed it:

 

There’s no diplomatic way to put it. In this historic announcement, Donald Trump has dramatically overtaken the chronically Muslim-friendly Democratic Party on gay rights. I predict conservatives across the west will soon follow suit. The right is quickly realising that, thanks to the silence on Islam, it is they and not the left who are destined to safeguard women, gays, and minorities from the barbarians of the East.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/08/15/republicans-just-overtook-dems-gay-rights/

 

Milo must be silenced.  They've already instituted a lifetime ban on Twitter.  We can't have a gay male spouting conservative values. 

 

 

Quote:Soros sure has a gang of libtards meandering around aimlessly...that is all.

 

Well, he is financing their opposition.

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