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Old 07-02-2008, 03:26 AM   #12
Sundae
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Problem is, it's not usually the first generation immigrants who are offended. They know to keep their heads down and try to assimilate/be invisible. It's the second and third generation who feel American and are American, but with a non-Christian familly culture. Are they so much less entitled than you in this "cultural melting pot", this land of immigration?
This is the same in Britain. It is rarely the first generation of immigrants that raise any protest. Their children however are brought up in a country where they are entitled to have their say and to the benefits that living in a reasonably affluent free thinking society affords. They are British, but the difference between their home and the street leads them to identify themselves as British Muslim (you almost never hear British Asian). So they are more vocal about their religion.
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