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Originally Posted by Sigaba
The model you sketch out is but one among many. It proved largely unsuccessful in the decades after Frederick Douglass suggested it in the late 1840s.
One can find myriad examples ranging from the War of American Revolution to GWOT in which various groups of immigrants and Americans have done everything in their power to assimilate and still found themselves on the outside looking in. Yet we are aghast when some take a skeptical view of 'assimilation.' Just because we say "the past is in the past" doesn't make it so.
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What proved unsuccessful? Worked ok for my families and many of the families I grew up around.
I didn't say assimilation was easy. However, it's annoying as hell when people come to this country and demand
their customs trump all and I have to press 1 for English.
Or they cry foul when asked to prove they belong here. Social programs for illegals are draining our taxes and I'm sick of paying for people who are here and shouldn't be. Hell, your state is bankrupt thanks to that in part, no doubt.
This is about AZ taking care of their state and constituents. If someone is here illegally I have no sympathy for their "trials and tribulations". They can go back where they came from.