REMBER WHEN WE WERE ALL AMERICANS?

I know that America is a diverse country and that people have come here from all over the world to live, however unlike those who came before them these new comers want the rest of us to change to accommodate their cultures.  When I was growing up, the one thing that we all had in common was that we were Americans.  We weren’t African American, Muslim Americans, Asian Americans, Italian Americans, we were just Americans.  Now the country wasn’t perfect, but we made it work and all of our parents made sure that we knew that we were a part of the country, one people with a common language, we celebrated American holidays like 4^th of July, Christmas, Easter and yes even Columbus Day. 

 These days if you’re an employer, with a diverse employee base, you could have someone missing everyday of the week due to some holiday that you never heard of, but you dare not require that person to show up for work, even if it’s not an established American holiday.  Hell, if we keep adding holidays for people from other countries, we’ll never get any work done.

I remember when people moved here and could not wait to learn the language, what happened to learning the English language?   If I immigrate to Pakistan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia or France, I would have to learn their language, and I guarantee you that no one would be printing the Drivers License test or anything else in English for me so that I could take it in my own language.  Americans retire all over the world these days, and all of the ones that I know learn the language of their host countries.  Listen, I have no issue with people coming here, but I don’t want to pay to have anything printed in another language for them, after all, this is my country.  If you want to live here, learn the language!  I am constantly encouraged by one of the companies that I represent to hire someone who speaks Spanish.  Wouldn’t a better idea be to for them to learn the language of their new country?

I was a History Major in college, and spent a lot of time studying European history.  What many don’t realize is that many of the countries that made up the old Soviet Union had been at war with one another for hundreds of years before coming under the Soviet umbrella.   When the Soviet Union broke up, and Russia no longer was around to keep the peace, ethnic wars broke out between several of those countries and many thousands of people were killed before the United Nations sent troops in.  That was nearly 20 years ago, and those NATO troops remain to keep them separated from each other even today.  Those troops will no doubt have to remain for an unlimited time, because if they leave the ethnic wars will start again.  That is what we’re in danger of turning America into if we aren’t careful.  You see when we were all American we had things in common and shared what it meant to be an American.  Today we allow people into our country who refuse to assimilate, they want to bring their culture here and force it on us.  Rather than learning our language, they expect us to pay taxes and have documents translated into their languages.  Finally, no matter what we’ve done to accommodate them, it’s never enough, they still hate us and in many cases support those who would do us harm and try to destroy this country.

Every great country in history was destroyed from within and America is no exception.  We’re allowing our country to be separated by ethnic group and that’s not a good thing.  If this trend continues, we will surely end up like Bosnia and so many other places in the world.  One need only look at the problems in France and England  and the trouble that’s brewing in those countries to realize that the same thing could happen here. 

I don’t know about you, but I’m an American, nothing more, nothing less, just an American.  I hope that you’ll adopt that policy as well and encourage everyone that you know to do the same.  This is our country, let’s do what we can to save it before it’s too late.

For those who want to be Americans, here are some rules that you can start with.

1.         This is America, if you have a complaint about our country, please keep it to yourself.   We don’t care what your anti American opinion is, if your country was so great you wouldn’t be here.

2.        If you’re a citizen, you’re an American, not African American, Asian American, Muslim American or any other kind of American.  Either you’re American or you’re not. 

3.        Learn the freaking language! This isn’t Mexico or Saudi Arabia, and we shouldn’t have to learn your language to communicate with you.  Remember you came here.

4.        Integrate into our society.  We know that you’re more comfortable around people from your old country, but you’re in America now, so try to make some new friends.

If you have additional rules, please feel free to add to this short list.