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Re: {OT} On the History Channel -
09-05-2006
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The History of the Pizza. Pizza was brought to it's current form in Naples. My family is from Naples. Pizza was brought to the US by an Italian named Lombardi. When they were talking about him, the showed an Italian Immigrant from the 20's or so, holding his little baby and waving an American Flag in front of the baby, and then holding the flag in front of the camera and waving it. Those were the immigrants of the past, happy to come to America and become American. Why does our current crop of 'immigrants' wave Mexican flags? What a difference a century makes... |
for a first-generation immigrant to ever fully assimilate?" I answered
"YES" because I thought of those immigrants from the early 1900s and
even my parents from the Fifties. It's amazing how today's immigrants
refuse to assimilate and don't even bother learning the language. I'm
sick of "Pressing 1 for English" wherever I call or when I use a credit
card.
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"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been." ~
President Gerald Ford
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:04:34 -0400, badgolferman wrote: Hachiroku, 9/4/2006,2:27:49 PM, wrote: The History of the Pizza. Pizza was brought to it's current form in Naples. My family is from Naples. Pizza was brought to the US by an Italian named Lombardi. When they were talking about him, the showed an Italian Immigrant from the 20's or so, holding his little baby and waving an American Flag in front of the baby, and then holding the flag in front of the >> camera and waving it. Those were the immigrants of the past, happy to >> come to America and become American. Why does our current crop of 'immigrants' wave Mexican flags? What a difference a century makes... One of those political tests I took asked the question "Is it possible for a first-generation immigrant to ever fully assimilate?" I answered "YES" because I thought of those immigrants from the early 1900s and even my parents from the Fifties. It's amazing how today's immigrants refuse to assimilate and don't even bother learning the language. I'm sick of "Pressing 1 for English" wherever I call or when I use a credit card. My Grandfather on my Dad's side came over on da boat from Germany, just before WWI. When he landed and got processed, he immediately learned how to spek English. When we were kids, my cousins and I, I think I was about 4 years old and heard Granda saying something I couldn't understand. My cousin grabbed me and said, "Let's go!" The only time he EVER spoke German was if he was REALLY mad! They NEVER taught the kids German, because they were Americans. They had a flagpole and flew the flag on holidays, and it wasn't a German flag, either! Yeah, I think 1st generation can assimilate quite well... So did my great-grandparents from Italy.. |
Today's Liberals have redefined the word "patriotism" as something
dirty and keep invoking Germany as an example of patriotism. If
Americans truly had any pride in their country we would insist on
immigrants conforming to our culture rather than we change our laws to
accomodate them.
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"I do not belong to any organised political party: I'm a democrat." ~
Will Rogers
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Hachiroku, 9/6/2006, 8:48:42 AM, <KszLg.1914$bz1.646@trndny09> wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:04:34 -0400, badgolferman wrote: Hachiroku, 9/4/2006,2:27:49 PM, wrote: The History of the Pizza. Pizza was brought to it's current form in Naples. My family is from Naples. Pizza was brought to the US by an Italian named Lombardi. When they were talking about him, the showed an Italian Immigrant from the 20's or so, holding his little baby and waving an American Flag in front of the baby, and then holding the flag in front of the >> camera and waving it. Those were the immigrants of the past, happy to >> come to America and become American. Why does our current crop of 'immigrants' wave Mexican flags? What a difference a century makes... One of those political tests I took asked the question "Is it possible for a first-generation immigrant to ever fully assimilate?" I answered "YES" because I thought of those immigrants from the early 1900s and even my parents from the Fifties. It's amazing how today's immigrants refuse to assimilate and don't even bother learning the language. I'm sick of "Pressing 1 for English" wherever I call or when I use a credit card. My Grandfather on my Dad's side came over on da boat from Germany, just before WWI. When he landed and got processed, he immediately learned how to spek English. When we were kids, my cousins and I, I think I was about 4 years old and heard Granda saying something I couldn't understand. My cousin grabbed me and said, "Let's go!" The only time he EVER spoke German was if he was REALLY mad! They NEVER taught the kids German, because they were Americans. They had a flagpole and flew the flag on holidays, and it wasn't a German flag, either! Yeah, I think 1st generation can assimilate quite well... So did my great-grandparents from Italy.. I think the difference between today and yesterday is National Pride. Today's Liberals have redefined the word "patriotism" as something dirty and keep invoking Germany as an example of patriotism. If Americans truly had any pride in their country we would insist on immigrants conforming to our culture rather than we change our laws to accomodate them. -- "I do not belong to any organised political party: I'm a democrat." ~ Will Rogers |
the French Canadian ones, learned how to speeka da English. . . . 27
different languages for drivers tests? What pot-smoking maggot infested
FM-type thought that one up?
Charles of Schaumburg
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