Thread: To all immigrants (both legal and illegal)

Diversify This!
by H. Millard © 2000

So you came to this country, this America, from some other country. You say that you came because you were fleeing repression or that you wanted a better life for your family in these United States, or maybe that you wanted to make more money here than you could ever make in your former country. Okay. That sounds reasonable.

So why in the hell are you demanding that we show sensitivity toward your former country's culture and language? If you want to honor those things, then go back there. Don't come here and try to make here the same as the place you left or you'll find that the problems you fled there are being made anew here.

Don't be fooled by some neurotic idiots who treat you like stray cats to be mothered and nurtured and cooed over, and who will tell you how much they love your culture. These cat ladies, sans cats, exist in every country, and their phony neurosis based do-goodism is only going to hurt you, because they don't treat you as fully formed adults but as helpless little children no matter what age you are. The price of their fawning is that you have to try to be small and look up at them with big helpless doe eyes and in effect worship them as your great saviors. It is eternal childhood and helplessness that is demanded of you. Don't fall for it.

To hell with your old country. You left there for a hoped for better here. If you want to take advantage of whatever it is you believe is available to you in these United States that is better than where you came from, then YOU better show sensitivity toward our culture and you'd better damn well try to understand and conform to our ways.

Don't come here and tell us that we should teach you in OUR schools in your old language. If you want that, go back where you came from and don't let the friggin' door hit you on the way out. Beat it. Amscray. Head out. Who the hell needs you? We didn't ask you to come here.

Don't come here and call us names because you feel we're not being sensitive to your diversity. Screw your diversity. Either come here to be like us---because, remember, you came here to our country, we didn't go to your screwed up former country--and it is not us who should change to make you feel comfortable. You are the one who must change and be sensitive to us.

You're the guest. Not us. Live by our rules and our lights or beat it. And if you snuck into this country illegally, then you'd better get your ass back out of here and apply through legal means. And, if you can't get in through legal means, then that's just the way it'll have to be. You don't have a right to be in this country unless WE say you can be here. Period.

You say that we're being so insensitive. Tough nookies. You'd better change to get in step with us, or you ought to head for the exit.

This is OUR country. We may not be the first people who came here, but those we've replaced weren't the first either. Being first doesn't matter. What does matter is that we found a mostly empty country and we built it in our image. We will decide how it's run.

We'll decide who can join us as citizens. We speak English here. We do things in certain ways here. That's our choice and it's not your right to come here to tell us that we have to be more like you. We don't want to be like you and we don't want our country to be like your old country. If we did, we would have gone to your old country to live as you've come here. We didn't do that.

Get yourself Americanized as quickly as possible or get yourself gone. We don't owe you a damn thing. You owe us.

Again, my message to all these immigrants fleeing their own ruined countries for a "better life" in our country:

You want a great life, then why don't you build your OWN great countries, instead of attaching yourself like parasites to the great country WE already built? Hmm?

My fathers family has been here for 375 years while my mothers family was naturalized in 1924.
My grandfather swore a citizens oath and even served for a while as an immigration inspector.

There is a difference between the two terms assimilation and intergration and I do not think much of assimilation. I think that intergration and awareness is good and I am for it from a long term American perspective.

I would rather have my fellow citizens be aware of my cultural differences and aware of a shared citizenship. I would like to know how other people are different from me and try to get along with them despite the differences.

Are people from overseas trying to be part of our unique national consciousness and act in it's own people's interest or just present here. People who just define the nation as immigrants ignore the fact of a selfsustaining country already being here.

There are beautiful women that a lot of men go after for the most superficial of reasons. The way the men act is not always in the women's own interest at all. The woman is more likely to know what she wants for herself. A man can sometimes act in what is clearly in their interest alone despite
their expectation that the woman be part of a couple.

It might be possible to make more money here than anywhere else and to come here for that but that is not appreciation of people already here who are the body of our country. We are not hurt by a considered flow of new immigrants. We do not need a flow of immigrants who do not act in the interest of a country in which the majority are already here.

Amen. Either get with the program or get out. Americans don't run. So when our country is going through something hard (such as illegal immigration), we stand up and fight back. There is no place for an American to run. We are home, and we plan to stay home.

If you don't want to assimilate and to become an American there are daily flights back to where you came from. End of discussion.

I think you hit the nail on the head-jhrino about neurotic americans who adopt "put upon minorities " to feel superior in a really covert way.I have seen this in action so many times.
very good essay- A + :P