It doesn't matter whether you assimilate or not. Yes, if you speak a foreign language or build a Hindu temple or wear traditional Indian clothing, the New Right will scream their heads off about it. But if you put on a University of Texas sweater and go to football games, they'll still scream "Alien invaders!!" when they see you in a photo. It's who you are that bothers them, not what you do.
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If she were a black gay progressive, uh it would be my body, my choice, sexist work, um you know, girl boss, and instead because she's a white MAGA uh Republican, everyone's outraged. No, I think it's a double standard.
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Everybody sizing one another up as being fresher off the boat, more foreign and weird. These were critical determinations, often coming down to the strangeness of some kid's sneakers or shirt or haircut. I don't recall any of the sort of taunting and name-calling we had at the apartment complex, but there was patent discrimination.
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So even before this executive order, if you wanted to do the thing Trump is asking for, which is to speak English, you were going to have to wait to learn how. But now they're just being told to do it without the funding for these classes.
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