FireFuente wrote:Thanks for posting that.
Sometimes I need a reminder why I stopped giving money to VT.
Yep.
FireFuente wrote:Thanks for posting that.
Sometimes I need a reminder why I stopped giving money to VT.
My family left Hungary after the October Revolution was put down in 1956. My Nagymama still cooked Hungarian dishes and they had Hungarian decor scattered about the house, but for all intents and purposes, they became Americans once they got here. Every one of them learned to speak English, became citizens, and participated in the American way of life. They asked for no concessions. My father was 14 years old and began school here in the first grade. Within a couple of years, he'd caught up and went to high school like an ordinary American, graduating in 1962, at the age of 19. He put himself through college and lived the American dream.HokieFanDC wrote:That's pretty funny.
Question, though. Does this apply to all the western european immigrants who fled their countries to come to America? IMO, someone leaving their country to go to another country that has more opportunities, doesn't mean they don't love their country or its' culture.
Also, I think you have to look at the specific region they come from. The Philippinos I know are all mostly culturally American, but still maintain some cultural elements of the Philippines.
People from Mexico and the Middle East, much different, for different reasons.
1. Partial credit to Adam Carolla. He jokes about soccer in the US as (paraphrasing) "..a time when people wave flags and cheer on the country they risked their lives fleeing from."HokieFanDC wrote:That's pretty funny.RiverguyVT wrote:You just won UWS todayUSN_Hokie wrote:Ahh yes...she's so fond of the Philippines that her family fled to the United States.
Question, though. Does this apply to all the western european immigrants who fled their countries to come to America? IMO, someone leaving their country to go to another country that has more opportunities, doesn't mean they don't love their country or its' culture.
Also, I think you have to look at the specific region they come from. The Philippinos I know are all mostly culturally American, but still maintain some cultural elements of the Philippines.
People from Mexico and the Middle East, much different, for different reasons.
No, it is really, really, really, stupid stuff. And, not free. Where is the Huguenot room? Your definition of inclusive is exclusive to someone elseip_law-hokie wrote:It’s just being inclusive. Good stuff.RiverguyVT wrote:I don't know that they are making demands so much as our CalBerkley president is ladeling himself in self loathing guilt, like turkey gravy... this is LWNJobberyFireFuente wrote:They would never put up with this kind of crap in Asian countries.cwtcr hokie wrote:
So when you go to their home country you should segregate yourself from the population of the country? how does that make sense? Or should the country you go to change stuff to meet your needs?
Allowing a foreign population to come to your country and start making demands is strictly for those of white Western European descent. They'd laugh at you anywhere else.
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Pretty ironic comment considering the entire point of University is exclusivity / sorting. Maybe you should have just written "inclusive" on every page of the LSAT.ip_law-hokie wrote:
It’s just being inclusive. Good stuff.
If the culture is what led to conditions forcing their emigration, yeah...that’s stupid excrement. That doesn’t mean one couldn’t or shouldn’t long for the food or mountain range vistas he was used to; but cultural mis-belief sets!? Yeah...longing for that is moronic.HokieFanDC wrote:That's pretty funny.RiverguyVT wrote:You just won UWS todayUSN_Hokie wrote:Ahh yes...she's so fond of the Philippines that her family fled to the United States.
Question, though. Does this apply to all the western european immigrants who fled their countries to come to America? IMO, someone leaving their country to go to another country that has more opportunities, doesn't mean they don't love their country or its' culture.
Also, I think you have to look at the specific region they come from. The Philippinos I know are all mostly culturally American, but still maintain some cultural elements of the Philippines.
People from Mexico and the Middle East, much different, for different reasons.