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"Why Can't The English Learn To Speak?" (re: demanding immigrants be fluent before they arrive) (Original Post) niyad Aug 2017 OP
These foriegners got to learn to speak murican first sailfla Aug 2017 #1
When I've helped with past Censuses, it always amuses me how many claim to be of "American" descent sandensea Aug 2017 #2
Well...At least outwardly you will all look like an AMERICAN... yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #3
They must be deaf AND blind. So much stupidity in this world. sandensea Aug 2017 #4
Not my favorite number in that movie, but a great number & greatest movie! Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #5

sandensea

(21,627 posts)
2. When I've helped with past Censuses, it always amuses me how many claim to be of "American" descent
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:40 PM
Aug 2017

It's always the right-wing types, and it's obvious they have no idea what that means.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
3. Well...At least outwardly you will all look like an AMERICAN...
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 05:10 PM
Aug 2017

to Americans, I look like I am Fresh off the boat, and often treated that way, ..

'' oh? Who taught you English? You speak it so well!"

...uh.. I was born here.



sandensea

(21,627 posts)
4. They must be deaf AND blind. So much stupidity in this world.
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 05:50 PM
Aug 2017

I can't claim to have always made the smart call in life; but I know this: of all the ways they divide us to get their way with us, racism is chief among them.

Really cute videos, btw. We laugh; but there are a lot of people like that (some mean well, others don't).

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
5. Not my favorite number in that movie, but a great number & greatest movie!
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 09:23 AM
Aug 2017

Sadly, they're all dead, now. Time marches on, but these beautiful films are preserved forever.

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