After hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. NOT sorry if this offends anyone because this is MY COUNTRY - IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP.
I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- may God Bless You and MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!
I am questioning and questioning the motives of those who want us to have a divided country, serving two languages, two cultures, two sets of rules. The motive must be money, votes, and a united continent, ruled by the Mexican Cartels, or something I just don't get. I am astounded, perplexed, and down right sick of it all. I am very very patriotic, and I also realize that there is room for many ideas, cultures, and persons in this great land, but if we have to choose, and it seems that we are being forced into choices, I CHOOSE ENGLISH, I CHOOSE LAW ABIDING CITIZENSHIP, I CHOOSE AMERICA FIRST. Work here, build here, trade here, be an AMERICAN.
ReplyDeletethere is no greater insult to a host country than refusal to speak their language. SPEAK ENGLIAH..love it our leave it.
They have made laws not to burn the flag, but they themselves spit on it every day with the laws they pass.
ReplyDeleteEver been to Canada? Many laguages are spoken there but two are predominant, english and french. There is nothing wrong with a bi-lingual society. In fact there are many good things about it. Ever been to Europe? If you have, didn't it make you feel at ease when the hotel desk clerk or cafe waitress spoke to you in english? Come on, wake up, we don't need redneck patriotism. What would be better is a more tolerant society. Just as Jesus taught us.
ReplyDeleteCanada is a country where every 10 years or so the French re-start the movement to separate.
ReplyDeleteBad example.
BTW, there is no good example. Bi-lingual societies do not fare well.
Welcome to the United States of America. Please speak English.
AMEN GOD BLESS THE USA and if your not down with that go back to where you came from.
ReplyDeleteMy parents came to America from Poland just before WWII. They gave themselves Americanized names and learned English. They took courses and learned to read and write and passed their citizenship test and became citizens. We had to speak English in the house instead of Polish (which is as foreign to me as French).
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line is that they did whatever they could to become American and were proud of it. My father worked the coal mines of PA and my mother took in boarders to make ends meet, but they did it.
I am very proud of them and thank them every day for being their daughter. They passed away about 10 years ago but I still have all the things they brought with them when they fled Poland.
I have mixed feelings about today's illegals. I know I should want them out of here, but I haven't walked in their shoes and don't know what they left behind. I do however strongly agree that the National Anthem should only be sung in English.
Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN
ReplyDeleteAre we "SLOW LEARNERS" or what?
Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Bi-Lingual countries do very well. Read your histroy book. When our country was starting many people spoke 3 languages. There was a movement to have German as the language as an insult to England. Open your mind. Stop the redneck thinking of anything different scares you or is dangerous.
ReplyDeleteLet me try this again.
ReplyDelete"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to brethe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore; send those, the homeless, tempest-tosed to me, I left my lamp beside the golden door."
It's on the Statue of Liberty. Ironically one of the symbols in the picture on this post.