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"We're all immigrants"
No. We're not. I don't know about you, person who is making this stupid statement. But I was born in this country.
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That's like saying "slavery was my fault" just because one of my ancestors did it.
The ONLY thing that is hereditary is genes, not nationality, or criminality, or anything else.
The point people are making is that for you to be here, other people had to come, and a lot of them faced the same persecution current immigrants are, so don't be a dick to them.
This shouldn't be an issue.
Also, the point people are trying to make with the statement isn't that. It's "You can't say nothin caus UR an immigrant too hurr durr!"
and guess what? If your parents came here on a boat, there really isn't much you can say.
I benefited from being born here. Not from anything my great grand whatever-parents did.
I don't even see what your point is, since that is still a significant difference between what you're saying and what the threat title is. Unless you're trying to argue that its a different way of saying the same thing, which is not true.
Also, learn English and wave a fucking American flag for once. If you're so keen on celebrating your culture, why the fuck did you leave your culture's homeland? Oh, that's right. Because the country you immigrated to has better opportunities for you. BUT YA STILL GOTTA REP THE MOTHERLAND, GOOD OLD MOTHERLAND THAT WE COULDN'T WAIT TO LEAVE!
At least, that's what your post seems to imply to me. I apologize if that wasn't your point.
And you wouldn't have been born here if you're grandparents didn't come to America, and you benefited from that.
This not a difficult concept. Do try and keep up.
^^English is one of the hardest languages to learn. But it's the principle of the matter. Hell, I learned enough German (Swiss dialect), Italian, and Finnish to at least let the locals there know what the fuck I was trying to say, even if it wasn't enough for an interesting conversation, just to visit those places for 3 weeks. And I learned quite a bit of Japanese when I was mistakenly under the impression that I was going to be stationed there. I learned enough Pashto to be able to effectively do my job when I went over to Afghanistan, and quickly picked up on it once I got over there.
Did I need to do any of that? No. The friends and family I was visiting in Europe could have easily acted as my interpreters, I would have been assigned to a base of mostly english speakers in Japan, and my platoon was assigned a 'terp while we were in the Ghan. And I've never been especially good at learning languages, either. Four years of Spanish classes in middle/high school, and I still can't understand a lick of it. But I still attempt to learn the native language when I travel to a foreign country, whether to live, work, or visit. It's just the polite thing to do.
And if you want to speak your native tongue in your own house, that's cool. Knock yourself out. You want to have little-[country of origin] in your apartment, go for it. But when you're out in public, and speaking directly with the locals, it's the least you can do to speak the locals' language.
It's not a point because it still doesn't make me an immigrant.
Then again, if it were not for shoddy condom manufacterers neither would I. Oh well.
If you are born in a country, you are a citizen, not an immigrant. To be an immigrant, YOU have to have migrated from somewhere.
People will remain immigrants if they stick to the culture and language of their parents/grandparents' home country. A Pakistani who can't speak proper English, who adheres to imported Pakistani cultural norms, can't be considered British. You cannot call yourself a citizen of your parents' adopted country if you don't actually integrate.
Also, racial homelands. Europe is still the racial homeland of White people, just as East Asia belongs to the Orientals. This isn't to say that other races can't immigrate to others' homelands, but they should remain firmly in the minority, and this sort of preservation should be national policy. You'd think that Western countries in particular would have learned from colonialism just how much immigration can change a country, and watched out for the warning signs of an invasion of foreigners. Europeans should not accept mass immigration and cultural extinction as a punishment for imperialism.
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars