11/Also, almost everyone surveyed (94.1%) agreed that being able to speak English was important for being an American. And 93.7% said having American citizenship was important. That should quiet the fears of the Huntingtonian nativists...
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22/Not even a little bit of this crap!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mOqoklLyM0 …
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23/The data in "Americanism in the Twenty-First Century" strongly implies that if it weren't for asshole racists giving nonwhite Americans a hard time, we would have national unity.
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24/Even WITH racists running around being assholes, most Americans of all races feel American, and we still all have broad agreement on what it means to be an American (at least, as of 2004). But, we can do better.
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25/If you see a racist giving someone a hard time or yelling "Get out of my country" or some such bullshit, shut them down immediately. For the sake of common human decency, but also for the sake of the country. (end)
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Why not look also at what some of the immigrants could do better to cause less of it? It's surely not the case that immigrants of color are all wonderful people with nothing to improve upon. Also, Pew polls show immigrant favorability > for groups that are most productive.
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