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In article <C0F1II.I25@ddsw1.mcs.com> arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) writes:
>In article <93004.154249U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>>be representative of the entire length and breadth of Hispanic culture and
>>society?
>>
>>Furthermore,how is one tragic incident _caused_ by the aforementioned macho
>>celebration rite supposed to stain the entire idea of understanding other
>>cultures on a basis other than the inane gibberish you churn out regularly?
>
>
>First of all, it was the AP that called it a Hispanic tradition.  I only
>pointed out that we would be better off if it had stayed in Hispania.
>
>I have no problem with understanding other cultures, I just don't wish
>to import them into this country.

Damn, better sell Florida back to Spain. 

As a friend of mine from New Mexico says: "We didn't come to the US,
the US came to us." If you've lived somewhere for centuries, and another
group comes along and imposes a government, should you really be expected
to change your culture to match theirs? No, you shouldn't. Then why should
the Hispanics in the US be expected to change?

Therefore, the US will always and should always be a multicultural state.

Bear in mind, it's very likely that Puerto Rico will try to gain statehood
by the end of the century. They're officially Spanish-speaking, and that's
not going to change. The English Only partisans should really have fun with
this.
-- 
Stephen Graham
graham@cs.washington.edu	 uw-beaver!june!graham