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Originally posted by Codered88
Everyone's an immigrant including natives. English in the western world is universal. IMHO learn it or don't receive government cheques and don't complain when your living in a tent outside wally world.
Originally posted by DaddyBare
Originally posted by Codered88
Everyone's an immigrant including natives. English in the western world is universal. IMHO learn it or don't receive government cheques and don't complain when your living in a tent outside wally world.
Just so you know the only government check I ever got..
is my tax returns
and now my retirement from the Marines....
it is very dangerous to assume ya know
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by NoHierarchy
You sound like a No Borders kind of person. You say that nationalism is disgusting. Were you thinking of Nazi Germany? Or Russian communism? Maybe the Chinese military parades on May 1? I get so tired of hearing Progressives whine about how bad nationalism is, and then complain about the NAU or NAFTA, CAFTA, the trans-corridor cutting the country in half, or any other number of NWO traps. I don't want to hear people complaining about how they lost their language then say how bad nationalism is. Don't people see the hypocrisy? Preserving one's language is preserving a national identity, but because there are so many different languages within a given territory it tends to break down the sense of unity.
People who are into the whole No Borders thing are just begging for the One World Totalitarian govt.edit on 19-6-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Well stated...thank you
Originally posted by Codered88
Everyone's an immigrant including natives. English in the western world is universal. IMHO learn it or don't receive government cheques and don't complain when your living in a tent outside wally world.
Originally posted by WineFly
reply to post by DaddyBare
You certainly have a better grasp of the English language than a great deal of young people in English speaking countries these days.
Like I said earlier, learning a new language is a very useful tool so why do you care if it was forced upon you? You have gained something good. I wish I had Polish forced upon me or I wouldn't have this problem of learning it now.
Sorry to say but the Indian nations were defeated, and were given reservation land which defines borders of their nations. It is important to preserve the language and cultures within those borders, a shame if lost, but that's the responsibility of the keepers of the language and cultures. Across the border is a different nation, made of people from around the world, but unified by a common language.
Just for comparison There are other dark skinned Indian people on the other side of the earth who were also conquered by the English. They are now increasingly united by a common language, English. Their nation is rising, their incomes are rising, their skills are rising, and they're taking jobs away from Americans. They don't whine about English, they celebrate it.
A common language unites us to stand together. Languages divide, and we fall as a nation.
Originally posted by Dbriefed
reply to post by Jelonek
Pretty much sums up a collection of completely misguided views.
You realize you are communicating in English, right? We're all posting in the same language.
I am also from that brown skin region of the world.