Quote: (11-19-2014 08:21 PM)Travesty444 Wrote:
Quote: (11-19-2014 07:40 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Secondly, These illegal immigrants are already here and they aren't going anywhere. Nobody is going to round them up and deport them. There isn't the political will to do so.
Didn't read the rest but why the fuck not? There can't be a legitimate reason.
We can't be the developing world's ladder.
Also I have Mexican friends. 3 extremely close ones. One's family does well and the father is a super alpha. The other the dad is a beta and they are whitewash ghetto.
In any case Mexicans don't want to assimilate by and large. They live here like it's Mexico.
In past times Europeans WANTED to do everything to assimilate.
My Polish grandparents FORBADE my parents from learning Polish so they were as American as possible. One of my great uncles cut down our Polish family name to a 3 letter English sounding name to do better in business.
Have Mexicans try that on for size! Lulz.
Two of my friends are Eduardo and Jose. Not a good start.
You think my Polish side has Polish first names? No fucking way.
Let's compare this to my Asian friends.... Michael, Paul, Justin, Steve... hmmm is there a difference?
Assimilation takes many decades to achieve. Think 50 or 60 years if not more. Also remember that the biggest wave of the new-new immigrants (Hispanics) happened during the 80s and 90s (largest peak was in 96). So we're only talking about maybe 20 years or so of folks trying to assimilate. The majority of the Hispanic population is made out of first-generation Mexican-Americans with the average age of 27 or in their 20s who are the sons and daughters of the new-new immigrants from the 80s and 90s which makes it the youngest ethnic group of people in the United States.
So right now the assimilation of Mexican Americans is still in its first stage as many Linguistics call it. Full assimilation happens in the 3rd generation where the great grand-kids of the original immigrants will only be able to speak English. America will always be an English first country, no matter how many people try to spin it. Its still the language in schools, work, politics, media, and everything else. Its nearly impossible to get ahead in life in America without knowing English.
There are Mexicans in fact right now who do not teach their kids Spanish because they don't want their kids to have it hard in America and face discrimination, but at the same time there are those parents who want to preserve their culture and teach them Spanish as well. That is what happens in the first stage of assimilation. Also it will take far more time for Mexican-Americans to assimilate than those of other countries because Mexico is right next door. Cultural influence is strong especially in the SouthWest, in Southern Cal, etc...
The assimilation process for Mexican-Americans or any American really goes something like this:
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Immigrant: Native Spanish/Weak English
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First Generation: Good Spanish/Native English (We get Spanglish)
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Second Generation: Weak Spanish/Native English
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Third Generation: Little to no Spanish/Native English
^^^^^ Its a process that will be impossible to see right now.
In the 1880s and 1890s, there was a wave of Irish immigrants. Fast forward to 1960 and John F. Kennedy was the first Irish American president of the United States and first Catholic as well.
It takes time.