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Originally posted by djallure What is free to you? We are politically free in the United States. You may vote for whomever you wish, speak your mind on any issue you wish, petition your government, but on that same note, because you are free too tell a 99 year old grandmother to F-off, does that make it ok simply because it's within the scope of your freedoms?

Youre missing the point.
We are talking about freedom of culture, not rudeness.

ie. How can you compare celebrating your Greek heritage to telling someones grandmother to ... whatever?

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The way some of the morons are running this place, I'd almost rather claim my German heritage sometimes than admit I'm an American.

Anyway, like someone already mentioned you do see a lot of people that would rather stay in their little cultural bubble instead of assimilate. A lot of people from different nationalities did that when they moved here. Hell, Indiana's state constitution was written in English and German because there were so many Germans living here that didn't want to assimilate when the area became reckognized as a state.

The group that seems the most apt to doing this right now is the mexicans that come here by whatever means. I can't tell you the last time I met someone that had recently moved here from Mexico that didn't have some kind of sign of their heritage on their vehicle. Then you have to deal with the fact that many of them don't even bother to try learning English. I worked in a Finish Line years ago, and we would have entire families come in. I'm talking 8 or 9 people from 2 or even sometimes 3 generations of family members to all get stuff at the same time. The only ones that spoke English were the kids, who probably learned it when they were in school. I don't mind them coming here at all since I wouldn't be her had my Great Grandfather not decided to leave Germany when the Nazis took over, but please learn the god damn language and pay your taxes if you're going to live here.


I think I got sidetracked. Oh well.

well both my parents were born in greece.. i was born here.. i consider myself greek.. thats me! but i go to greece quite often and i speak it fluently and all that stuff.. so just because i was born in usa why cant i consider myself greek?
btw i agree with the person above.. sometimes im ashamed to say im american when i go to greece because of all the stuff happening here!! again thats my opinion!!

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Im Kai Tracids Future WIFE!!

you arre first generation american, yet you still have fam there, you speak both languages fluently, and you travel back and forth... you have every right to call yourself greek. btw I was there for a while this past summer, lotta fun.

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**David Elsewhere** Kollaberation IV