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June 6, 2005
Immigration Versus Invasion
Posted by Dave Blount at June 6, 2005 6:36 AM
What's the difference between an immigrant and an invader? An immigrant comes into a new culture and makes himself a part of it, by learning the language and adopting the values. An invader brings his own language and culture, and attempts to impose them on, or displace, the native population. Sometimes, thanks to the bizarre phenomenon known as moonbattery, segments of the native population will assist the invader in his seditious goals.
The politically correct balkanization of America — if not the "reconquista" espoused by MEChA — will take another step in the wrong direction if the Dallas school board takes up a proposed plan to require that school principals learn Spanish.
You read that correctly. Instead of the "immigrants" learning our language, we will be required to learn theirs. The scare quotes around "immigrants" are there to signify that if they are not being assimilated into our culture, they are not immigrants, but invaders — legal or otherwise.
Obviously the immigrants who came to this country from all four corners of the globe and made it great have brought to it aspects of the cultures they left behind — and this has made America richer. But the key is that they did leave their former cultures behind. They didn't come here to colonize or conquer; they came to become Americans.
It would be un-American not to welcome immigrants. But it would also be un-American not to defend this great country from invasion.
