Comments on: Getting Immigration Right http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: martian http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/comment-page-1/#comment-72656 martian Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:53:24 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/#comment-72656 "But the melting pot is still a necessary framework for making America work. " This is the key. The melting pot, NOT a salad bowl where everything gets tossed in together but all components maintain their separate identities. It is what has made America work from the beginning. As Ms. Chua says, her parents encouraged and even forced their children to learn English and to assimilate. This has been the pattern for successful immigrants for centuries. Walking away from it now would be the mistake. “But the melting pot is still a necessary framework for making America work. ”

This is the key. The melting pot, NOT a salad bowl where everything gets tossed in together but all components maintain their separate identities. It is what has made America work from the beginning. As Ms. Chua says, her parents encouraged and even forced their children to learn English and to assimilate. This has been the pattern for successful immigrants for centuries. Walking away from it now would be the mistake.

]]> By: Uncle Fester http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/comment-page-1/#comment-72607 Uncle Fester Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:55:48 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/#comment-72607 I don't know, time may very well render the argument moot. In my neighborhood, all of the second and third generation Mexicans are already assimilated and the parents appear to be adapting in, if nothing else, self-defense. I don’t know, time may very well render the argument moot. In my neighborhood, all of the second and third generation Mexicans are already assimilated and the parents appear to be adapting in, if nothing else, self-defense.

]]> By: feeblemind http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/comment-page-1/#comment-72605 feeblemind Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:35:43 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/#comment-72605 AWOL Civilization has a post on immigration titled 'For the Happiness of Those United in Society' "http://awolcivilization.com/?p=97" It's pretty good. AWOL Civilization has a post on immigration titled ‘For the Happiness of Those United in Society’ “http://awolcivilization.com/?p=97″ It’s pretty good.

]]> By: feeblemind http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/comment-page-1/#comment-72601 feeblemind Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:34:51 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/16/getting-immigration-right/#comment-72601 The bottom line is immigration will continue unabated. California, a state that morphed into a cast iron Democrat stronghold, and a state whose finances are a disaster, is a portent of things to come in the rest of the USA. The bottom line is immigration will continue unabated. California, a state that morphed into a cast iron Democrat stronghold, and a state whose finances are a disaster, is a portent of things to come in the rest of the USA.

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