The anti-assimilation piece quoted below is more proof that we are stupidly allowing the formation of a hostile fifth column, millions of Mexicans still loyal to their homeland who are only here for the money and care not one iota about the American principles we treasure. Saying that they “assimilate on their own terms” means they do not intend to acculturate in any way. It’s more deception wrapped up in PC language to assuage the uncritical.

As I wrote last year, a little-noted poll from the reputable Zogby firm found that Mexicans have a very low opinion of Americans and our culture: Our Friendly Neighbors Spill the Frijoles. Mexicans believe we are exploitive, racist, corrupt and lazy. It turns out our southern neighbors aren’t friendly at all; they are downright antagonistic.

So why would Mexicans assimilate to a culture and a people they clearly hate? It’s money that they come for — and that’s all.

Assimilation, according to Tomas Jimenez, a sociology professor at the University of California, San Diego, “no longer means you have to disown your culture and adopt a new lifestyle identified with Anglo-Protestant culture.”

In an essay published in the Los Angeles Times, Jimenez said that due to Latinos, “multiculturalism and the appreciation of diversity are much more accepted than before.” [...]

What’s certain is that many Latinos live with one foot in each culture, and that they flow like water from one side to the other, something you can see each time the Mexican national soccer team faces the United States in the fiercest sporting rivalry in North America.

Ricardo Castro, brother of Cristobal and also a naturalized U.S. citizen, said he considers himself 100 percent Mexican.
[Latinos Assimilate on Their Own Terms, Enlace 7/27/07]

If you disagree with Professor Jimenez and perhaps believe that immigration still requires the same patriotic assimilation that it ever did, you can e-mail him your well considered thoughts.

…as if he were Davy Crockett or something. I believe Kou Wei Chiu is one of those brilliant immigrant doctors you hear about. No one’s saying, though. What they’re saying is that he’s Tennessee man, a Bellevue man, that he’s fluent in Chinese and Spanish, and has been practicing in a “Spanish-speaking practice,” in a Tennessee community that has somehow acquired enough monoglot Spanish-speaking residents to need a “Spanish-speaking practice.”

Last updated July 26, 2007 11:24 p.m. PT

Physician charged with airline bomb threat at Sea-Tac
Tennessean called 911 after missing flight, FBI says
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A 31-year-old physician from Tennessee who allegedly admitted to calling 911 three times to make a fake bomb warning at Sea-Tac Airport was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday with making a false threat against an aircraft.

Kou Wei Chiu of Bellevue, Tenn., a Nashville suburb, is accused of making the bomb threat because he missed his Northwest Airlines flight, forcing the plane to turn around in flight and return to Sea-Tac.

Chiu made an initial appearance Thursday afternoon in federal court in Seattle. A detention hearing was set for Friday.

According to an FBI affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Chiu admitted that he used an airport pay phone to call 911 three times after he arrived at gate S-7 too late to board his flight Wednesday. “Flight 980 Memphis. There may be a bomb on board,” Chiu was quoted as telling the emergency operator.