[quote=FlyerInHi]Integration is a myth. Prior to the television age and the interstate highway system, America was very fragmented in ethnic communities.
One of the reasons immigrants intergrated before is because they lost touch with their home countries and their relatives. There was nothing but network TV. Now you can order foreign cable channels and there’s the Internet. Remember when you could not even call your relatives back east because long distance was super expensive? The commoditization of jet travel and telecom changed all that.[/quote]
good observation. we are in uncharted territory as far as how new americans and native born americans view each other with the advances in travel and communications. The new immigrants are very comfortable with their identities and given the choices now available, those who do not like it here will move (back) to where they like it.
For now, I am least worried about my throat being slit when i walk the immigrant infested doyle community park. My biggest fear is with mostly native borns who refuse to “follow the law” and do not properly leash their badly trained dogs.
Don’t these people understand that this a country of laws? 🙂
