tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post2711905987938188196..comments2023-05-05T06:38:34.592-04:00Comments on IMHO: Life in an Arizona, and Mexican, border-townNiceguy Eddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03896896323840121445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-22904562934216789862010-04-29T21:11:36.844-04:002010-04-29T21:11:36.844-04:00Rox,
Thanks for your comment. Just try not to ta...Rox,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. Just try not to take take up so much space with it next time! XP<br /><br />DD,<br />Agreed, 100%. And as Carlos Mencia described, we get the best of what every country has to offer: The bet Irishmen came HERE, the best Italians came HERE, he Best Englishmen came HERE... And the best Mexicans, for the most part, are the ones that want to be HERE! (Although nothing against Mexicans IN Mexico, of course!) <br /><br />Thank you both for your comments.Niceguy Eddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03896896323840121445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-39476741590389347592010-04-29T14:57:19.377-04:002010-04-29T14:57:19.377-04:00I happen to think that America was built by immigr...I happen to think that America was built by immigrants - call me crazy, but I believe that the vast majority of stuff we have here wasn't crafted by Native Americans (not that there's anything wrong with NA's, of course), but came from immigrants and their descendents.<br /><br />And so, to complain about the most recent immigrants as "less than" is totally bogus.<br /><br />One of the bigger reasons, I believe, for the success of the USA is the fact that we WERE a nation of immigrants. The people who come here now and who came here over the past 4 centuries were energetic and ambitious and daring and brave and smart and willing to strive for more than they had in their home countries. Now, not every child they had behaved in that same way, and not every immigrant had pure motives and fit the profile I created above, but that immigrant stock helped our country become what it is today!<br /><br />To ignore that fact, and ignore history, and decide that this crop of immigrants is somehow "less" than previous crops is ridiculous. Of course, virtually every new influx of immigrants has been declared to be inadequate, but I don't understand why so many fail to research history and learn from it and understand the fallacy of that kind of thinking.<br /><br />That's my twenty-five cents on the topic.DellDollynoreply@blogger.com