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The things you’re describing are superficial. My wife’s dad is a Japanophile and she grew up eating sushi, etc. That doesn’t make her Japanese. Assimilation is
by rayiner 6mo ago
The things you’re describing are superficial. My wife’s dad is a Japanophile and she grew up eating sushi, etc. That doesn’t make her Japanese.
Assimilation is about how you think and what you value. It’s not just knowing about the American political system, but understanding and embracing the values and worldview that created it.
- sersi 6mo agoAnd how much does the Trump administration understand and embrace the values and worldview that created the American political system. How much do they agree with the Founding Fathers? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’?
- rayiner 6mo agoHonestly, not very well. Trump is from an immigrant background. He doesn’t talk like an American (unlike Obama or Bush or Clinton). The American right these days is filled with people from recent immigrant ancestry whose understanding of American values is something of an impersonation of the real thing. The founder’s America ceased to exist at the national level with the election of FDR.
- selimthegrim 5mo agoFDR was quite blue-blooded himself.
- pstuart 5mo agoWas that "Rose-uh-velt" or "Roos-uh-velt"?
- yulker 6mo agoGo ahead and tell us what it means to be a real American then
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- apawloski 6mo agoAre you a real American? Am I?
- rayiner 6mo agoI’m not. I have a Bangladeshi sense of the flow of time, I have basically traditional beliefs about family structure, raising children, social obligations to elders, etc. But I appreciate and enjoy Americans the same way I appreciate and enjoy the Japanese.
- oa335 5mo ago> I’m not. I have a Bangladeshi sense of the flow of time, I have basically traditional beliefs about family structure, raising children, social obligations to elders, etc. Why don't you live by your principles and return to Bangladesh? To use your own argument (not mine), your culture is both inferior to the American culture and Americans have voted to not have "your kind" here. One way or another, you are being disingenuous, either through your words or your actions.
- Epa095 6mo agoYour description of 'real Americans' remind me of the description of Gavin Newsom as 'looking like an American president in a Canadian movie'.
- dwa3592 6mo ago>>Assimilation is about how you think and what you value. It’s not just knowing about the American political system, but understanding and embracing the values and worldview that created it. Now you are just bullshitting bc you think you have ran out of substantive things to say, which you never had, to begin with.
- rayiner 5mo agoDo you think that people from different cultures don’t have different values and worldviews?
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- pstuart 5mo agoDo you think that kids born in America (or anywhere for that matter) don't care about fitting in with the other kids? Did you? When you were a kid were you more concerned about your Bangladeshi heritage or not being an outsider amongst your peers? And yet I'm sure you didn't lose respect for your family and background, because one can do both things simultaneously. But those other brown people are different and bad and have bad culture that ruins things, right?