Re: [nas] World Cup Haikus

[ron <billomac@earthlink.net>]

>On 13 Jun 2002 at 21:56, PAKURILECZ@aol.com wrote:
>
>>  In a message dated 6/13/02 9:52:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>  csallen@charter.net writes:
>>
>>
>>  > In a generation -- or less -- the kids of some of the immigrant Mexicans
>  > > who currently root for el Tri will be playing for los Estados Unidos
>
>OK, Peter, say you got transferred to the UK, Germany, or perhaps even
>Mexico? Say the job was so good that you chose to live there for the
>forseable future, perhaps forever?
>
>Exactly when would YOU stop celebrating the 4th of July and start
>celebrating Guy Fawkes Day, German Unification Day, or Cinco de
>Mayo?
>
>Probably never, but if you had kids there, they would.
>
>The US has assimiliated generations of immigrants for two centuries,
>but it's only the successor generations that really assimilate, not the first
>ones.
>
>There's no magic switch that you can turn on to make people instantly
>switch allegiance from one country to another. It takes time, so have
>enough faith in the capacity of this country to do with latino immigrants
>what it has done with all of the others.
>
>
>Chris Allen
>csallen@charter.net

It's like 'Mexicans have black hair, blah blah blah" - "well I know a 
blond one, blah blah blah."

There is no norm. When I immigrated at age 19, I never went back to 
celebrate German holidays, go to meetings with Germans, buy their 
cars, etc. I integrated almost immediately into American society.

That is why I think it is a personal, individual thing.

That doesn't mean I don't feel German at times, I do. If the US 
doesn't win the cup, then I want Germany to win it.
That is why I put on my German stuff when they play, and the American 
stuff when they do, including the appropriate flag outside.

-----Ron
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