......I think basically means each one will add their own ingredients their own way in their own time, and before you know it it's ruined. I've done that before all alone in the kitchen to be honest, concocted stuff and kept adding until I had an inedible mess on my hands.
Now to translate: I would like to see us Americans NOT refer to ourselves or each other as hyphenated Americans, but only as Americans. I have never, ever called myself a Hungarian-American, and I am first generation! My father said we didn't come here to be Hungarians in America. We did not align ourselves with the Hungarians already living here. Many of them thought and acted mostly like they did back in the old country, 'cause assimilation is not always easy.
Our government should be blind to our race, our religion, our national origin, our sexual orientation, our (adult) age, whether we eat pizza or Chicken Paprikas. Remember:
"Our nation is not bound together by common ties of blood, race, or religion; we are united instead by our devotion to shared ideals...."-Bruce Cole
We do ourselves and our fellow citizens disservice by arbitrarily or voluntarily self segregating. In the eyes of Uncle Sam, there should not be Black Americans, or Gay Americans, or White Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or Asian Americans, or even Native Americans, or Italian Americans (how many generations do they have to be here before they don't refer to the family line as Italian American anyway? Worked in Vegas with lots of Italian Americans---no, wait, they've never even been to Italy! See what I mean?) It's time to get past that now and live the constitution as meant and written, and let's all just be patriotic, law abiding American citizens. The fed. government promised to treat us equally, all of us. The color of our skin, the language of our prayers, the words spoken in our homes, with whom we keep company, all these things are non of government's business. We should all be just equal citizens in it's eyes.
Ok, I admit, the very handle thenaturalizedcitizen sounds like a hyphenated American. I apologize for any perceived hypocrisy, but I thought it was catchy....LOLOL.
Naturalized Citizens Against a Socialized America!
Now to translate: I would like to see us Americans NOT refer to ourselves or each other as hyphenated Americans, but only as Americans. I have never, ever called myself a Hungarian-American, and I am first generation! My father said we didn't come here to be Hungarians in America. We did not align ourselves with the Hungarians already living here. Many of them thought and acted mostly like they did back in the old country, 'cause assimilation is not always easy.
Our government should be blind to our race, our religion, our national origin, our sexual orientation, our (adult) age, whether we eat pizza or Chicken Paprikas. Remember:
"Our nation is not bound together by common ties of blood, race, or religion; we are united instead by our devotion to shared ideals...."-Bruce Cole
We do ourselves and our fellow citizens disservice by arbitrarily or voluntarily self segregating. In the eyes of Uncle Sam, there should not be Black Americans, or Gay Americans, or White Americans, or Hispanic Americans, or Asian Americans, or even Native Americans, or Italian Americans (how many generations do they have to be here before they don't refer to the family line as Italian American anyway? Worked in Vegas with lots of Italian Americans---no, wait, they've never even been to Italy! See what I mean?) It's time to get past that now and live the constitution as meant and written, and let's all just be patriotic, law abiding American citizens. The fed. government promised to treat us equally, all of us. The color of our skin, the language of our prayers, the words spoken in our homes, with whom we keep company, all these things are non of government's business. We should all be just equal citizens in it's eyes.
Ok, I admit, the very handle thenaturalizedcitizen sounds like a hyphenated American. I apologize for any perceived hypocrisy, but I thought it was catchy....LOLOL.
Naturalized Citizens Against a Socialized America!
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