Comment by JustExAWS

11 hours ago

> I would highly encourage such a person to assimilate to the norm in this country of not defecating in public, and were they not able to do so, I would be antagonistic against more of such people immigrating to this country.

Do you also believe that Muslim women should be forced to take off their hijab or that it should be illegal for them to wear burkinis in public pools like the laws they passed in France?

Should gay people not hold hands in public because it may make straight people uncomfortable?

When a Spanish family is speaking to each other in public, should they speak English? This really offends some people.

I go to a barber shop where everyone speaks Spanish and they play Spanish music. Most of them speak English also. But when they speak to each other, they speak Spanish. If I happen to go to the barber who doesn’t speak English, I switch to my limited Spanish and keep it moving.

The “norms” the culturally conservative want is perfect English without a foreign accent, straight, Christian.

> So, respectfully, I disagree fundamentally: those who choose to put down new roots in a different country absolutely do owe it to the existing inhabitants to assimilate. I, as an immigrant, owe it to existing Americans to assimilate to the American way of life. When in Rome, do as the Romans.

If someone can manage in this country catering to people who speak their language, why should it be anyone’s business if they speak English?

> But it is equally a failing if white adult were to find a black youth's behavior to out of the ordinary in a negative way[2]

This kind of thing happens all of the time to Black people living in White neighborhoods. Ving Rhames was in his own house minding his business and got SWAT called on him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/actor-ving-rhames-said-...

How many times has a White person been harassed outside of their own home and having to prove they live there.

> or we can have monoethnic societies, either in parallel ("separate but equal" where each group plays by their own rules with minimal crossover) or as the eventual result of a vicious struggle between the factions that leaves only one standing.

Or we can do like I’m suggesting and treat people like people, celebrate the gay couple, mixed race couple, etc who decide to get married. Dance salsa when the Latin music comes on. Be willing to sing along with the country music, hip hop, rock, music when the DJ plays it.

When me or my step son is walking in the neighborhood where I was making twice the median household income of the most affluent area in Atlanta (working remotely for BigTech), mind your business instead of putting a message on NextDoor about a strange Black man suspiciously walking into his own house with a key.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-chief-orders-probe-handcuff...