Originally posted by: exdeath
Originally posted by: Orignal Earl
Originally posted by: exdeath
And if you raise a Mexican flag in my neighborhood I will promptly take aim at you because last I knew raising a foreign flag on another country's soil and flag pole is symbolic for conquering.
I can think of at least 3 homes within 2 miles of my house with American flags hoisted high in the front yard. They have been there even longer then the Iraq war has been going on, so it's not even a support the boys at war thing. I had assumed they were proud American families here working for Canadian/American companies. Good thing most folks around here don't have the same attitude you have
It's more to do with the attitude and intentions of the person doing it. I just can't see people living in Canada raising American flags in aggression, hatred, and ill will as many Mexicans do in the SouthWest US with their Mexican flags... of course I don't know what goes on at the Canadian border so I will limit my observations to the Mexican border.
What people do on their own property is their own business (that is if it IS their property and they are citizens), I should have been more specific and refered to the cases of hispanics removing American flags off flag poles in schools and public places and either burning the American flag or hanging it upside down
below a Mexican flag.
exdeath is being a little extreme methinks, but ive seen things like what he is describing. In my area there is a large population of hispanics (no im not saying they are illegal), and its just strange how they stick within their own groups.
During a school assembly, in the middle of the national anthem, a few groups of kids unfurled big mexican flags (yes more than one) from the upper levels of the gym. It was pretty ****** up, im not sure what happened to them..
There are a lot of people who originated from other countries here (seattle). People of asian descent have assimilated well, and they started immigrating heavily in the 1980's. On the other hand, Mexico has been there since the start of this country, and there has pretty much always been a hispanic population. It just seems a lot of them are not willing to take the effort to assimilate, and although cultural diversity is important we shouldnt destroy America's culture of "blending of cultures" so one can exist outside of it.
I am all for
legal immigration from any country, as people who go through the immigration process get background checks and injected into our economic system on a fair ground with government support. People say illegals are taking "jobs we dont want", I dont agree with that. We dont want the jobs because they pay under the table, below minimum wage, and with no insurance or guarantee of even being paid. This almost creates a semi-slave working class, and the more people who are willing to do the work, the more corrupt heads of companies are willing to hire them and take away the opportunity from legal citizens.
We should fence the border of Mexico
and Canada. Even though Canada does not produce as much of an immigration problem because their population is mostly satisfied where they are, as soon as we fence the Mexican border people sneakling in from over seas would take advantage of an open Canadian border.