Make your land like ours!

[Marius_Ursus]

When I lived in Texas, I saw a lot of Mexican immigrants who came to the US because they wanted better jobs and an opportunity to improve their lives, yet they wanted to make Texas exactly like Mexico. hock:

Erm.. This may come as a shock, but Texas was originally Mexican. hock:
So if you're thinking this through, it would be a return to an older culture, before the US conquered Texas.
But even before the Spanish settled Texas, it was settled by American Indian tribes, whose culture was of course so much different from the European settlers that the seeming differences between US citizens and Mexican newcomers is so small it's a moot point.

So, isn't this very natural for anybody who moves away from home and makes a new home is a new are? Don't we all do that?

Many Dutch holidaymakers went to Spain for summer holidays in the 1970s, and many stayed for the winter. But instead of integrating with their Spanish neighbours, they shop at stored with Dutch food and Dutch staff, they go to Dutch doctors, etc.

I think we all want to take our home with us to a better new place. I guess it's better than being homesick - it's natural.

Yes, that's true. However, I'm not talking about conquering nations, and I'm not talking about being homesick and creating an atmosphere to remind you of where you came from. What I'm addressing is the idea that a community in England where pig farming has been a cultural mainstay for centuries is under attack from the Moslems who moved there because the statue of the pig in the town square is offensive to them. I'm talking about the fact that 25% of the bandwidth on my cable TV carrier is Spanish programming...and I live in New York...

I'm talking about 5% of a population moving somewhere they want to be and then trying to force the remaining 95% to bend to their wills.

That sort of thing just doesn't make sense to me. If I moved to China, I'd hardly expect to make butchers take the duck carcasses out of their windows just because it hurt my delicate American sensibilities. :wink: