(July 28, 2011 at 1:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: However, I think he has a special place in hell for the ones who immigrate to the west and then, as soon as they get there start insisting that Europeans shitcan their cherished freedoms because these new arrivals object. Fuck them. If they don't like the West then go back to their tent in the desert. If you went into a neighbor's house and started complaining about the way they decorated or the food they served or the programs they watched on tv I imagine you would be invited to leave in short order.
I wholeheartedly agree, however, it is a shame that such a sentiment, while innocuous and justified on it's own, is more often than not used by other assholes as "talking points" for their own racist causes.
That said, I've never thought too highly of "multiculturalism". It doesn't mean I hate other cultures, or that I expect my culture to be with me wherever I go, but I do dislike intensely the (thankfully) short lived proclivities of any new ethnic group to segregate themselves off and try to make ethnic enclaves where they can reimplement the very place they came from.
Case in point -- The South Vietnamese who came back with us to the US were settled all across the United States. In a matter of years, however, they had mostly collected to what can best be described as ethnic enclaves and at worst, slums, to form places like "Little Saigon".
I shit you not. A bunch of those gits wanted to name one of their districts after Saigon as "Little Saigon". When one of their own leaders proposed "Saigon Business District", their own people threw a massive tiff.
This is motherfucking America assholes, not South Vietnam-lite...