I was pleasantly surprised when I first ran across a multilingual ATM in NYC --Russian, Ukrainian, and a couple of Asian languages, as I recall. The only ones I had seen here in Texas were in English and Spanish. (That has since changed.)
Thankfully the Founders had the foresight to put in the Constitution that the US does not have an official national religion.
Lets see -- Massachusetts was settled by Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England, Rhode Island was settled by Roger Williams and others fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers fleeing religious persecution in England, and Maryland was settled by Catholics fleeing religious persecution in England. This probably had something to do with the "no official state religion" and "no religious test for public office" bits.
Seriously, "barbarian invasion" is basically what the influx of undocumented immigrants is being called - even though our economy and our politics - and our freedom - pulled them here.
Not to mention, in the case of Latin American immigrants, the War on Some Drugs, which has caused so much disruption of society and economy in some Latin American countries.
...the consignment of Indians to apartheid-like reservations which continues to this day.
Andrew Jackson ignored two Supreme Court rulings to displace the Cherokees from their homelands in North Carolina. Maybe if the SOB had been impeached we might have had a better policy towards the Native Americans.
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Date: 2008-07-05 03:08 am (UTC)Thankfully the Founders had the foresight to put in the Constitution that the US does not have an official national religion.
Lets see -- Massachusetts was settled by Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England, Rhode Island was settled by Roger Williams and others fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers fleeing religious persecution in England, and Maryland was settled by Catholics fleeing religious persecution in England. This probably had something to do with the "no official state religion" and "no religious test for public office" bits.
Seriously, "barbarian invasion" is basically what the influx of undocumented immigrants is being called - even though our economy and our politics - and our freedom - pulled them here.
Not to mention, in the case of Latin American immigrants, the War on Some Drugs, which has caused so much disruption of society and economy in some Latin American countries.
...the consignment of Indians to apartheid-like reservations which continues to this day.
Andrew Jackson ignored two Supreme Court rulings to displace the Cherokees from their homelands in North Carolina. Maybe if the SOB had been impeached we might have had a better policy towards the Native Americans.