We have laws against discrimination. People are generally welcoming and friendly to new immigrants, no matter what the color of their skin. The Asians are some of the first to adopt the ways of their new country. They don't stay on benefits long at all.
Good point about Chinatown in certain big cities, where they have large populations. It probably took them awhile, but last I checked both Irish and Italians have been successfully assimilated.
American culture encompasses the customs and traditions of the United States. "Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things," said Cristina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London.
America used to be a melting pot where people from different countries came and slowly adopted the ways of their new country. Now people come in great numbers and form their own communities. Assimilation has slowed to a snail's pace and indeed may not be happening at all in some cases. I suspect if we put PC aside and take a good hard look we might see something similar happening in other countries too.
I'm beginning to understand. Tolerance is biting your lip instead of speaking out against what you don't necessarily like. Tolerance is pretending you don't see what is happening around. Tolerance is going along to get along. Tolerance is learning to love big brother. Tolerance is learning to love yourself. Tolerance is love.
I'm withholding comments in the interest of being nice. Really doesn't matter to me if you reject my opinions or not, but we are all free to express them here. So if you chose not to debate then feel free to ignore. All we are having is an internet chat and probably won't be changing any hearts and minds on anything anyway. Try not to take it all so seriously.
There you go again. You just can't help yourself with the insults can you. I'm not interested in empathy. You're not really such a nice person are you? I don't really care what you think anyway. So there.
If you want to debate the issues I'll be happy to oblige. I can respect that you see things differently, but if you just want to call people names you'll have to find someone else to play.
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What's your definition of tolerance?
The soapbox is all yours. Say your piece. Are you a Christian?