09-23-2007, 09:35 PM
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Rules for the phone.
How ALL business phones in America SHOULD be answered!
GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you learn to speak English
And remember only two defining forces have ever
offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ
and the American Soldier.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
Recieved this in an E-mail
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09-23-2007, 10:02 PM
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I thought maybe you were gonna talk about phone sex.
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09-24-2007, 12:03 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarecrow
How ALL business phones in America SHOULD be answered!
GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you learn to speak English
And remember only two defining forces have ever
offered to die for you,
Jesus Christ
and the American Soldier.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
Recieved this in an E-mail
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Well said! Irish
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09-24-2007, 05:02 AM
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Seems a bit unfair on the only people who actually have the God given right to live in America, for whom English is NOT their first language (obviously).
How quickly, it seems, history can be forgotten.
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09-24-2007, 05:10 AM
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Americans are, after all, as human as the citizens of any other country.
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09-24-2007, 06:41 AM
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Yup, as egocentric and xenophobic as all the British (and other nationality) immigrants who settled there all those years ago and treated the natives so poorly.
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09-24-2007, 07:38 AM
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Oui! Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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09-24-2007, 02:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Loulabelle
Yup, as egocentric and xenophobic as all the British (and other nationality) immigrants who settled there all those years ago and treated the natives so poorly.
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And then there were those who stayed put yet still held those views. America does not by any means have the lease on ethnocentricity.
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09-24-2007, 02:56 PM
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Tells it all
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No Irish need apply!
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09-24-2007, 03:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Loulabelle
Yup, as egocentric and xenophobic as all the British (and other nationality) immigrants who settled there all those years ago and treated the natives so poorly.
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Loulabelle there are no 'Native Americans', some just immigrated a lot earlyer than others and it is still in dispute whether the Aisan tribes or the European (Viking) tribes found this land first. And if it was the European tribes then the Aisan tribes killed of the European tribes first.
P.S. In Canada they are called First Americans not 'Native Americans', the Canadians have it right.
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09-24-2007, 04:19 PM
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Sacrebleu!
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09-24-2007, 04:28 PM
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Scarecrow,
America, like Australia, had a series of waves of colonisation. Each wave eradicated or absorbed beyond recognition the one before.
Along came the Europeans who didn't obliterate the Natives (quite rightly), but left a legacy of discontent.
How many of the colonists (Dutch or English) learned the native languages beyond "Can I borrow a turkey please".
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09-24-2007, 04:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarecrow
P.S. In Canada they are called First Americans not 'Native Americans', the Canadians have it right.
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First time I hear that term myself... Native American is a common term here, actually.
But you're right, the Canadians do have it right. I certainly appreciated my right to be educated in my native tongue - which just happens not to be English.
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09-24-2007, 05:29 PM
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Actually in Canada they are would most often be referred to as First Nations.
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09-24-2007, 10:33 PM
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God forbid people crawl out of their little xenophobic shell and learn to speak something besides English.
Personally I'd love to speak another language. I can't and my brain just doesn't seem to be wired to learn. I've taken French, Spanish, and German, in middle school, high school, and college respectively. I just don't get languages. Teach me math or give me a schematic or instructions, and there's very little I can't take apart, put together, or figure out. Just don't ask me to do it in any language besides English. I'm sure there are quite a few people who come to this country who have my exact problem.
And to think that people come to this country and don't try to learn the language is a bit ignorant IMO. My wife is third generation Mexican American. She speaks little to no Spanish while her older siblings speak more/better Spanish the older they are. Both her parents speak both Spanish, and English and have even acted as translators for court cases in their small town. But to each other they speak primarily Spanish. I really don't understand why so many people have a problem with that. I go to their house and they speak Spanish to each other. It's their house. They're also getting old and if they need to call the Social Security, Medicare, or what ever and they can have a Spanish option I think that's great. Even though they speak English it's a hell of a lot easier on them to hear Spanish.
Get over it. Every so often we get a rush or immigrants who noone thinks will ever adapt and become "real Americans". People have tried in the past to keep out about every other group of people on the assumption they wouldn't assimilate, and every group has proved the xenophobes wrong. So why wouldn't the hispanics be any different?
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