Why?

[forsyth]

Why is it many of the same people who are the loudest in proclaiming the USA the Greatest and Strongest Country EVAR are also often the same people loudly proclaiming OHNOES! IMMIGRANTS ARE GOING TO DESTROY OUR CULTURE!

Dude. If we're a strong country and culture, we shouldn't have to worry about immigrants who want to come here destroying our culture. So which is it? Is our culture Great, or is it going to be wrecked by immigrants? Or is our greatness a really shallow and fragile and non-confident kind? 'Cause that's not really Great.

I never fail to be amazed by people's abilities to believe two contradictory things at the same time. Myself included.

Comments

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to disagree there. Sure, there's a lot of Stupid Crap in the US, but our culture's definitely worth defending. It's just that immigrants are one of the LAST groups of people we need to defend it against. They WANT to come here. They WANT to be a part of the US. BECAUSE our culture rocks (and we're rich). One of our greatest strengths in our culture is it's good enough to convince people to come here and want to be like us. So when people try to chase other people out, or make them not like us, they're hurting the very culture they claim they're protecting. Which is sort of the whole point of my original post.