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Susan Foster
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This is going to get worse over the next few years--we are seeing it already.
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CPT John J. Dobise Jr.
CPT John J. Dobise Jr.
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It will get worser and worser should the left open our borders. Borders, language and culture are the elements necessary for a country to exist. We no longer have a common language or culture. It used to be that immigrants wanted to be part of our culture, and to learn English. I'm not to sure that is true any longer, particularily in the case of muslims, who are establishing enclaves which apply shira law, including the approval of FGM!
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SPC Samantha Stapley
SPC Samantha Stapley
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CPT John J. Dobise Jr. - We never had a national language. We have always been a melting pot. My Grandmother only spoke German and my Grandfather only spoke Italian. This melting pot also includes culture. Unless you are stating the Native American culture is gone, and you would be correct.
As far as the Muslims go, let them be. If a group of Muslims want to implement Sharia Law amongst themselves, let them. I don't see how that affects you. Obviously, anything that is actually illegal in the US should be kept that way. If they are trying to get it implemented as law in the U.S. (which I have heard, but not seen) then that is not acceptable. Let the Muslims practice their religion without discrimination, just as Christians and Pagans and whatever else there is practices theirs.

Also, worser is not a word and it's Sharia
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Susan Foster
Susan Foster
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CPT John J. Dobise Jr. - I would contend we've never had one language or one culture. And I think that diversity is our strength, rather than our weakness (rather than a country like, for example, France). No matter what your culture, you are an American. We are all immigrants unless we are Native Americans. I haven't seen anyone (maybe far left--I just don't know any) who wants to open borders. But please explain to me how immigrants being part of our culture relates to global warming problems in poor countries.
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CPT John J. Dobise Jr.
CPT John J. Dobise Jr.
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SPC Samantha Stapley - Thank you for correcting my spelling of sharia, an oversight on my part. As far as 'worser' is concerned, I side with Shakespeare at Sonnett 144. With respect to muslims, their 'religion' is not what one would normally consider a religion. It is rather, a combination of worship and civil law. Great mounds of paper have addressed the issue of separation of religion and the state in the USA. Liberals seek to disavow the historical connection between religion and our country, seeking rather a completely secular society. With muslims, no such separation is possible. So by taking a somewhat laissez-faire attitude toward the more radical muslims, i.e. allowing municipalities to apply sharia law, we are ceeding areas of our country to them, just as has happened in the EU.
I don't understand how you can contend there is no national language. While there is no law dictating English as a national language, for all practical purposes it is. My father spoke only German when he first went to school, even though he was born here. Both of my grandfathers spoke foreign languages one German and the other Norweigen. They all learned English. Our laws are in English, as are our founding documents, etc.
You mention a 'melting pot.' This concept conceives a blending of numerous cultures, including language, into a homogeneous one. That term has been used for a long time, more specifically as a result of a play by the same name in 1907. There is nothing wrong with holding on to certain cultural distinctions, but for historical purposes only, not as a way of life, separate and apart from other Americans. All the celebrations remembering parts of the 'old country' cultures are fun to engage in, but they are not used to reminisce about the worser conditions the immigrants left.
Diversity is the enemy of the melting pot. Diversity of heritage is wonderful, but continuation and emphasis of the distinction only contributes to the division of our culture, which is not healthy for our country.
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LTJG Richard Bruce
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No proof of any claim made in article.
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CPT John J. Dobise Jr.
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If all that you say were true, there would be no kingdoms on Middle Earth!
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