Why do peple say "we're all immigrints"?
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i agree with you.  just because my ancestors were immigrants doesn't make me one.  I was born here in this country, so i am american, my ancestors might have been german or irish, but i am american.  it's like saying anyone who has had ancestors who fought for germany is now a nazi.  That is not true, so it cannot be true for immigrants either.  People who say that ususally are immigrants and want to make everyone the same, but guess what,\n\nI WAS BORN HERE - SO I AM BETTER THAN YOU!!!
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Just what does making a pledge of allegience mandatory say about our country?\n\n\nThat always bothered me in school.
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We are not all. Some are Naturalized Citizens some are Native.
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It is Latin which means " Out of many we are one ". Loosely translated. Regarding the people the many different nationalities of people that came to America legally to gain their freedom from tyranny and oppression.
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I don't know about you, but I was born here.\n\nThat means NO, I'm not an immigrant.\n\nCertainly we are descendants of immigrants (as is everyone in the world), but that is not the same thing as being an immigrant.\n\nAnyway, such a statement is no justification for continued mass immigration. The inference that "We are a nation of immigrants and, therefore, we must not limit immigration" is a classic example of circular argument. What it says is this: Because we are a nation of immigrants, we have to allow for massive immigration which, in turn, makes us a nation of immigrants, Hence it's circularity. Circular arguments are invalid in the logical sense by virtue of how they are structured and not what they mean. They lead to faulty (and, therefore, useless) reasoning in which the thesis (the very thing which is to be proved) is used as a premise in its proof. And circular arguments certainly do not form a good basis on which to formulate sound public policy.
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Why do I get the suspicion that you're one of 'em?
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You realize that there is a whole section of American society that says "y'all" or "getter done" or even "howdy". Why have you not asked why SOME white people say and sound the way they do as well? Asking a well rounded question like that would take the racist edge off of your perfectly fine question.
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Because we're not French.
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I believe it started with minorities wanting to honor their heritage.  But you're right, we're all Americans and I don't think it helps to create division by seperating oneself by ethnic background.  Plus it's just too much of a mouthful.
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Because that's how their parents and friends and everyone else says it.  It annoys me, too, but I don't judge.  We still understand the word, after all.
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i think most people are not aware when they say things like this, and maybe some stuff is partly true, like "blacks are better dancers / singers". i believe that those who really mean ALL blacks / whites usually say so: "all whites are ..."
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I don't care.\n\nThe problem with the 'English only' and anti-immigrant sentiment goes against everything this country is SUPPOSED to stand for.\n\nI was under the impression that America embraced diversity. I was under the impression that diversity is part of what made America so great.\n\nYet we have this group of people, that forget that they or their ancestors were too once immigrants. Unless of course they are part of the native peoples of this land that were slaughtered and forced to assimilate into the 'foreign' invaders culture. ...But anyway...It is worrisome to me that tax dollars are being spent on blatant bull s h i t!!!\n\nFirst the President wants the national anthem, which may I remind people was written by a drunken Briton, to be sang in English....I'm curious to know exactly HOW MANY AMERICANS KNOW ALL THE WORDS to the NATIONAL ANTHEM.\n\nNow we have, FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL officials trying to make English the official language.\n\n\nYou know what my response is to that...\n\nbeso mi culo!  kus mijn ezel! beije meu burro! baci il mio asino!!!\n\nKiss my A S S!!!!\n\nGive me back my tax dollars until you can find something legitimate to spend my dollars on.\n\n\n....Ok! I'm done with my rant
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becuz we's al unedducam - unnedica - uneddukat - we's all DUMB hear onn teh innernet
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Oh the conflicting slogans the mindless lemmings parott. The races are all the same slogans & slogans that say we need racial diversity. The races are equall slogans & those complaining about racial inequality or how evil whitey is or was for this or that or how great other races are. Diversity is our strength slogans and yet anti racist slogans about how we must overcome racial divides no matter how hard it is or how long it takes.
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Probably because it sounds like a racist remark!\n\nIt means flower, but have you been to this website\n\nhttp://www.tsalagi-atsilvsgi.net/page2.html\n\nPS: You asked why no one responded and I said, propably because they thought you were one. I didn't say you were one because I know what the word means. Many, I assume, think it is Mexican. I don't know why!
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Shepard in the Land Of Sheep hit it right on the nose!\n\nI am racist because that is what fools lable me for be honest to tthat which I see.\n\nFor instance : If I say black people are loud and obnoxious while their walking by being loud and obnoxious, the person next to me would call me racist for the truht I spoke even though he hears  and sees the same thing I do.\n\nCalling someone racist is a trained response to silence someone from speaking the truth about a certain race or ethnicity. Calling someone racist does not make them a racist by definition but it does make them guilty of being truthful in the verbal or visual ( by what they see) sense.\n\nRacist is an old worn out word that has no more meaning or teeth considering  it only  lables someone for  speaking a percieved truth. In fact , calling someone racist would often today mean in a sense you are calling them a truthest whom has no fear of speaking that truth.\n\nBeing a racist is most often being closer to the truth than those who try to diguise it by being appeasers. \n\nBut the definition does not fit the word because it makes one believe that one is racist because he believes his race is superior to another.  Fact is that is not true. Most often people whom have been labled racist are often teling the truth. The word is desgned only to silence that person from speaking the truth. \n\nFact is , blacks are more racist than any group of people but that lable is  almost taboo to try and attach to a black person because of false diverstity and appeasement expected unto them .\n\nAnyone who says they are not racist or have never been racist is a liar. Fact is anyone who will not admit that blacks are most racist people on earth is a liar!\n\nWe are all racist. some of us are honest enough to admit it and hold no shame of the lable because it bares us as truthest who will not lie to ourselves or others out of trained appeasement and and fraudulent diversity . There is no such thing as diversity . As a white you are expected to be diverse to all other groups while yu are also expected to forget your own heritage and pride in order to bolster theirs. Diveristy is as fraudulent the alledged Civil Rights Movement. To admit the Civil Rights Movemnet is a failure would be to destroy your pretty little lables of white people and make them the word of truth and destroy the meaning of racist , diverstity and any of the anti's people love to lable whites with.\n\nTo hell with diveristy! being called a racist is confirming  your honesty and should be worn as a badge of honor that you speak the truth. To be diverse is to be controlled and phony, and untruthful to ones self and reality of perception of what one sees as truth.\n\nWE all hate something or some race, anyone who says they do not is a liar of the highest degrees. I love the racist who talk about other races and when in their company suck up and demean other people who are racist in front of them. They are the greatest of the hypocrits adn the greatest of the liars!\n\nQuit searching for answers. Deep in your soul you know who the real racist are so quit lying to yourself and others. The real racist are those who are first to lable you racist because they wish to shut you up about telling the truth about their race or another race they have been trained to protect  from the truth.\n\nBeing a called a racist means someone is trying to protect that race from the truth. That is lying and all liars go to hell. Be truthful, that is not racist. That is the only way you can help another race. By covering for them with stupid words to guard them against the truth , you are hurting them as a race and giving them the excuse to live the lie and to go on doing the racist things they do while calling others racist.\n\nRoyal" You are wrong that color comes from "UV" if that were the fact then all babies would be born "white" thereby letting the "UV" change them to their known race today. Do yo
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its an word that many racial supremacists from the majority group use to defend themselves by going on the offensive and implying that the traditional victims of racism, like blacks, latinos and other minorties are racists also.