Immigrants of the old America had to decide to give up thier way of life, thier security, and take a one way trip across oceans that were long hard journeys to cross. The people then trickled in small enough amounts that they did not replace existing american values or culture but adapted to it. Instead of coming in swarms and keeping thier own culture, thier own language and expecting thier new home to adapt to them.
America was a nation started by colonialists trying to actualy create a society and live in it. Mexico was started by Spainiards that were trying to extract all Gold and Silver and send it home.
The ruling people in early colonial America were trying to balance issues and deal with problems for long term progress. The ruling people in Mexico were noticing the natives were dying off in record numbers and making poor slave labor and that large numbers of african slaves would be needed for short term progress.
The American colonists were unfair to the relatively small number of natives (even though the American Indian war had more support than any war since due to a real danger to colonists from angry natives)while trying to compete for resources, the spaniards in Mexico were not competing but exploiting them as slaves and intentionaly working them to death much like Nazi concentration camps.
The history of both is long and detailed, but the result is that America was left with a culture centered around freedom and trying to be fair without infringing on the freedoms, and would right its wrongs from that foundation. While Mexico was left with people detached and distrusting and fearful of thier government. A sense of loyalty to family above rules or regulations, above right or wrong. Even thier politicians and ruling classes subscribe to the steal from the masses to give to thier familes philosophy. A system that does not work and leaves you with a culture and a nation that would crumble without a rich neighbor to leech from.
When modern Mexicans move to America they are not encouraged to adapt and embrace American culture, they are told they should be proud of thier existing culture that they are Latinos and different from Americans. This leads to entire neighborhoods and entire regions where the culture and lifestyle that is a failure in Mexico is a failure in America. That to remain true to thier own they must be less American than other Americans.
Thier next generation is then raised in a school system that tells them how awful America has been to its minorities and that they are entitled to preferential treatement to attone for it. Thier own culture then furthers ideas that they are natives (when most are primarily spanish, native, african mix) and that somehow Americans are on thier land. When in reality the border they claim was what the Spaniards had claimed only recently(the slaughterer of the natives) and few natives lived anywhere around the desert that makes up our current border, and surely no Aztecs did. So thier views are distorted to make them feel even more of an outcast and more self entitled.
This does not lead to new Americans, but to expansion of Mexicans living in America, quite a different thing. The massive influx of immigration from a single corrupt nation must be slowed to give time to allow immigrants to identify as Americans and become Americans. This is further compounded by the fact that Mexico is just a hop skip and a jump from America, so they do not have to make the life altering change to forever leave thier past behind to come to America like prior American immigrants did.
I would welcome new Americans from any nation on earth, but I do not welcome conquest by those unwilling/unable to become American in values and culture and self identity. We need to stop illegal immigration or it will weaken the foundation of the American ideals.
America was a nation started by colonialists trying to actualy create a society and live in it. Mexico was started by Spainiards that were trying to extract all Gold and Silver and send it home.
The ruling people in early colonial America were trying to balance issues and deal with problems for long term progress. The ruling people in Mexico were noticing the natives were dying off in record numbers and making poor slave labor and that large numbers of african slaves would be needed for short term progress.
The American colonists were unfair to the relatively small number of natives (even though the American Indian war had more support than any war since due to a real danger to colonists from angry natives)while trying to compete for resources, the spaniards in Mexico were not competing but exploiting them as slaves and intentionaly working them to death much like Nazi concentration camps.
The history of both is long and detailed, but the result is that America was left with a culture centered around freedom and trying to be fair without infringing on the freedoms, and would right its wrongs from that foundation. While Mexico was left with people detached and distrusting and fearful of thier government. A sense of loyalty to family above rules or regulations, above right or wrong. Even thier politicians and ruling classes subscribe to the steal from the masses to give to thier familes philosophy. A system that does not work and leaves you with a culture and a nation that would crumble without a rich neighbor to leech from.
When modern Mexicans move to America they are not encouraged to adapt and embrace American culture, they are told they should be proud of thier existing culture that they are Latinos and different from Americans. This leads to entire neighborhoods and entire regions where the culture and lifestyle that is a failure in Mexico is a failure in America. That to remain true to thier own they must be less American than other Americans.
Thier next generation is then raised in a school system that tells them how awful America has been to its minorities and that they are entitled to preferential treatement to attone for it. Thier own culture then furthers ideas that they are natives (when most are primarily spanish, native, african mix) and that somehow Americans are on thier land. When in reality the border they claim was what the Spaniards had claimed only recently(the slaughterer of the natives) and few natives lived anywhere around the desert that makes up our current border, and surely no Aztecs did. So thier views are distorted to make them feel even more of an outcast and more self entitled.
This does not lead to new Americans, but to expansion of Mexicans living in America, quite a different thing. The massive influx of immigration from a single corrupt nation must be slowed to give time to allow immigrants to identify as Americans and become Americans. This is further compounded by the fact that Mexico is just a hop skip and a jump from America, so they do not have to make the life altering change to forever leave thier past behind to come to America like prior American immigrants did.
I would welcome new Americans from any nation on earth, but I do not welcome conquest by those unwilling/unable to become American in values and culture and self identity. We need to stop illegal immigration or it will weaken the foundation of the American ideals.
