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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (256045)	10/18/2005 8:13:04 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571352

You will be assimilated! McDonalds and MTV will corrupt your youth. Then, we'll get them hooked on ranch houses and adjustable rate mortgages. You're culture is doomed! The American Borg will prevail.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (256045)	10/18/2005 8:31:32 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571352

"...and American social scientists --clue:" Again Gustav, you have to make a decision. Here you are using an article that argues As Appiah notes, 90 percent of California-born Hispanic children of immigrant parents have native fluency in English and in the next generation only 50 per cent of them still speak Spanish. One more generation and you can forget about Spanish. On the other hand, you claim that the rise of Spanish language stations and advertising signal a new wave of multi-culturism in the US. You need to choose one or the other because you can't have both. The problem with using social science as a basis is that it really isn't a science. Sure, this guy, and maybe his audience, agree that the US is a monoculture. But they probably have never gone into a China Town in a major city. Or watched UHF TV or the higher numbered cable channels. Or realized that the word 'bayou' is used across the country and is pronounced differently and means something different in almost every area. Or studied the patterns of what carbonated beverages are called in the various parts of the country(hint, almost nobody calls them "carbonated beverages"). Or the wildly variable ways Christmas is celebrated. Or the regional variations in the way a turkey is stuffed. Or the legality of turning right on a red light, or making a U turn. Whether or not highways and freeways have cloverleafs or feeders. Or shopped for ethnic foods and ingredients in various parts of the country. Or eaten chilli or barbeque in various parts of the country. Or... Much less compared and contrasted such cities as Galveston, Key West, LA, NYC and Kansas City(both Missouri and Kansas). To name just a few. The reality is that there is as much diversity across the US as there is across Europe. There isn't as much language difference, although there is some, but there is more to culture than language. Music, food, holiday practices and other things are probably more important in making up a culture than just the language.