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<blockquote data-quote="JimJimmyJames" data-source="post: 551677" data-attributes="member: 11425"><p>I tell people I spend my days picking up packages from warehouses filled with Chinese made stuff being boxed and shipped by Mexicans.</p><p> </p><p>All I can feel about it is a sense of doom.</p><p> </p><p>And, as Tieguy said, call me a racist or an xenophobe, but I am seeing the America I grew up in change in ways that I am not comfortable with. So, when I retire, I am going to try to go to a place where it feels, as much as possible, as it did when I was young.</p><p> </p><p>I hope that place still exists then. If it even exists now.</p><p> </p><p>And yes, there will hopefully be Hispanic people there. But they will know about as much Spanish as I know German or Irish. Or at least English will now be their first language.</p><p> </p><p>Because to me, when you finally shed your identity with your "mother" country, you become a true American. </p><p> </p><p>Heck, my German great grandmother didn't teach her children German once they immigrated here. She was too busy teaching them how to truly succeed in, and love, America.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JimJimmyJames, post: 551677, member: 11425"] I tell people I spend my days picking up packages from warehouses filled with Chinese made stuff being boxed and shipped by Mexicans. All I can feel about it is a sense of doom. And, as Tieguy said, call me a racist or an xenophobe, but I am seeing the America I grew up in change in ways that I am not comfortable with. So, when I retire, I am going to try to go to a place where it feels, as much as possible, as it did when I was young. I hope that place still exists then. If it even exists now. And yes, there will hopefully be Hispanic people there. But they will know about as much Spanish as I know German or Irish. Or at least English will now be their first language. Because to me, when you finally shed your identity with your "mother" country, you become a true American. Heck, my German great grandmother didn't teach her children German once they immigrated here. She was too busy teaching them how to truly succeed in, and love, America. [/QUOTE]
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