Quote:
|
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else
|
I think that this part is what is making a lot of us angry. In the past, immigrants came and tried to fulfill this to the most part. They didn't whine about the DMV needs to be in other languages or schools should provide special treatment. They came and took the "polish, etc..." jokes and realized that they needed to be the low man on the pole. However, newer generations come over and don't seem to be putting their time in on the butt end of the stick.
Every past immigrant wave generation took slack. It could be that they didn't have ambulance chasers to sue those who called them a ethnic centered name or barred them from sitting in a certain part of the bus.
As a child while playing hockey on the reservation, I would always be amazed that those around me had believed that they belonged to a different nation with different rules. I just looked at them as fellow brothers of the Turtle. Oh well. I guess being a biscuit was more important to them rather than being a fellow man of the land.
Ahh, the beauty of man and his perchance to form groups to protect himself.