sunt americanca si nu intotdeauna fac sa spun asta cu mândrie
oops in my previous entry concerning immigration - i rambled a little and failed to mention the native americans and referred to americans as blue bloods - woops! well i can say though that part of my emotions concerning this issue are stirred by continually reading random quotes by people like Brit Hume among others and their blatant disregard for humanity. here's a little excerpt from a NY Times article on the immigration rallies....
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Brit Hume, the news anchor on Fox News, described the marchers, particularly those carrying Mexican flags, as "a repellent spectacle."
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another quote i read the other day was from a guy whose parents were immigrants from poland and he's first generation i think american - maybe even born in poland and came here as a child - really can't remember exactly but he said something like - 'immigrants are a real problem, we have to do something about them.'
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ire and anger is what gets sparked in me when i hear these random statements...back it up - say something - say anything - pretend you have a logical reason to make this statement - what is your reasoning?
when i attended the university i took a class called the 'american experience' this was b4 there was a PBS series with the same title. the class was mandatory for all students regardless of their major. most of the students in my class as i recall were born in the states and were american citizens and most had either parents or grandparents who immigrated to the USA a few were immigrants themselves. we talked about what it means to be an 'american,' read and analyzed 10 non-fiction novels and wrote papers, etc. the thing that i discovered in this class was my lack of cultural community - as a child i experienced this sense of culture and community when visiting my grandparents at easter and in the summer, but after my grandparents were gone so was my sense of family and belonging - we were no longer bound to this community. we lived several hundred miles away from our last link to the immigrant community and i didn't identify with mass consumerism, baseball, apple pies and chevorlet - yeah i played sports as a kid and having an older brother i played baseball - it was fun - but i didn't like apple pie and well didn't drive a chevy - i digress again :)
what is it to be american? it's likely that if you are an 'american' you are an immigrant or the descendent of one who left their culture and life behind to follow some kind of dream of freedom, maybe to escape an unjust government or some other injustice in their country. hoping for a better life. all in the name of freedom. now much of the world is 'free' and this isn't such a big issue now for many. besides if you're there are you really free? i'm not sure that anyone is free in the USA anyway anymore. in fact, i think they have less freedoms now then ever before. in the name of security and the market economy - there is no longer a level of privacy granted to it's citizens. if you want to be a real american - invest in the stock market in iris scanning technology, tracking chips, etc. any kind of technology that will track you, your purchases and your actions - invest - you'll make a mint.
who am i? when people would ask me what nationality are you i would answer 'i'm american' - almost all of the time this answer was negated - 'no' they would say - 'where is your family from?' - 'ohhhhhh you mean what is my family heritage? i'm a mutt' - diluted european with bunici who were from 3 european countries. this question was asked by my peers and colleagues to form some kind of bond i think - maybe i was one of their clan? well i wasn't part of clan. usually in fact i didn't know anyone with my common heritage in my hoody. so maybe that's why i came back to a part of the world near to my ancestors? here when someone asks me my nationality i say just what i am - 'sunt americanca'
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Brit Hume, the news anchor on Fox News, described the marchers, particularly those carrying Mexican flags, as "a repellent spectacle."
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another quote i read the other day was from a guy whose parents were immigrants from poland and he's first generation i think american - maybe even born in poland and came here as a child - really can't remember exactly but he said something like - 'immigrants are a real problem, we have to do something about them.'
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ire and anger is what gets sparked in me when i hear these random statements...back it up - say something - say anything - pretend you have a logical reason to make this statement - what is your reasoning?
when i attended the university i took a class called the 'american experience' this was b4 there was a PBS series with the same title. the class was mandatory for all students regardless of their major. most of the students in my class as i recall were born in the states and were american citizens and most had either parents or grandparents who immigrated to the USA a few were immigrants themselves. we talked about what it means to be an 'american,' read and analyzed 10 non-fiction novels and wrote papers, etc. the thing that i discovered in this class was my lack of cultural community - as a child i experienced this sense of culture and community when visiting my grandparents at easter and in the summer, but after my grandparents were gone so was my sense of family and belonging - we were no longer bound to this community. we lived several hundred miles away from our last link to the immigrant community and i didn't identify with mass consumerism, baseball, apple pies and chevorlet - yeah i played sports as a kid and having an older brother i played baseball - it was fun - but i didn't like apple pie and well didn't drive a chevy - i digress again :)
what is it to be american? it's likely that if you are an 'american' you are an immigrant or the descendent of one who left their culture and life behind to follow some kind of dream of freedom, maybe to escape an unjust government or some other injustice in their country. hoping for a better life. all in the name of freedom. now much of the world is 'free' and this isn't such a big issue now for many. besides if you're there are you really free? i'm not sure that anyone is free in the USA anyway anymore. in fact, i think they have less freedoms now then ever before. in the name of security and the market economy - there is no longer a level of privacy granted to it's citizens. if you want to be a real american - invest in the stock market in iris scanning technology, tracking chips, etc. any kind of technology that will track you, your purchases and your actions - invest - you'll make a mint.
who am i? when people would ask me what nationality are you i would answer 'i'm american' - almost all of the time this answer was negated - 'no' they would say - 'where is your family from?' - 'ohhhhhh you mean what is my family heritage? i'm a mutt' - diluted european with bunici who were from 3 european countries. this question was asked by my peers and colleagues to form some kind of bond i think - maybe i was one of their clan? well i wasn't part of clan. usually in fact i didn't know anyone with my common heritage in my hoody. so maybe that's why i came back to a part of the world near to my ancestors? here when someone asks me my nationality i say just what i am - 'sunt americanca'
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