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Article #266Re: Spectacular Bookshelf Performance
From: Joseph Oberlander
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 05:06
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 05:06
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Peter Sammon wrote: > Joseph Oberlander <josephoberlander@earthlink.net> wrote in > news:5nUVb.21641$uM2.19252@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net: > > >>Peter Sammon wrote: >> >> >>>Von Braun lived his last few years as an American citizen. Perhaps >>>one of the advantages of being 'Merkin is that it is an easily >>>acquired "condition" as we are all immigrants or descendents of them. >>>For example it would be more difficult to immigrate to Germany and >>>become German, as the condition of thousands of Turks there would >>>illustrate. Not impossible maybe, but more difficult certainly. I >>>suspect the same is true for France (Algerians), Italy (Albanians) >>>and Britain. >> >>Actually, since it is by region/nation in most cases, it can be quite >>easy as an American to become a citizen elsewhere. Some places like >>the U.K. and Ireland have more applicants than spaces, but for >>someplace like Mexico or Japan - if you can speak the language and >>have a job lined up, you can get in pretty easily. > > > Interesting. That wasn't what I was trying to say though. I meant in a > social/cultural sense; It's easier to immigrate to the US and assimilate > into the culture- generally- than the aforementioned countries. > Oh. Yeah, that's largely correct as the U.S. has no real culture other than what it smooshes together from all the oddballs inhabiting it ;)
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