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June 6, 2005
Immigration Versus Invasion
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 6, 2005 6:36 AM
Comments
Amen!
Posted by: Jay at June 6, 2005 9:50 AM
Well said. Unfortunately, I doubt the right people are reading.
RWR
Posted by: RightWingRocker at June 6, 2005 11:52 AM
How can you defend -- if you can't speak the invaders' language?
The kids are being required to learn English. That doesn't mean they're being taught to FORGET Spanish. Furthermore, their parents -- like millions of LEGAL immigrants from Europe in the past NEVER learned English.
It's good to be able to communicate.
Posted by: Randy Case at June 6, 2005 1:19 PM
What you aren't taking into account is the fact that 1) it is a good thing to be bilingual. If you want job mobility, it helps to be bilingual; plus it also gives your employer another reason to pay you more or more inclined to give you raises because you're above and beyond the status quo. 2) Effective education requires the parents to be able to help their child. If the child is having problems in school, the principal needs to be able to communicate with parents (legal or illegal) who don't speak English. 3) Almost every sociologist and linguist I know agrees that after about 3 generations in America, the immigrant's family and descendants will have adopted English. This is just a transition period.
And besides, if the principals don't like it, I'm sure they can go be a principal at many other schools.
Posted by: Chris Woods at June 6, 2005 1:47 PM
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
If you want to know how angry English parts of Canada have become over imposed bilingualism, in all federal government business, just ask one like me.
It starts off seeming rather trivial but soon in a country that is 90% English speaking, people having French mother tongues fill all the good federal jobs.
Posted by: Loboy2k at June 8, 2005 1:52 PM
