I don't believe that a person should give up their national identity or heritage merely because they moved to the united states, but I will say it's rather recalcitrant to actively not accept the culture and language of the country you've moved to, even if it isn't an official language. It's practical to know. And if you've moved to a country, it's very stubborn and ungrateful to actively live against, or rather to not try and aid the state with your respect for its customs and language of the land. The state would be getting no benefit to your having come there. I agree governments should be more charitable than conservatives believe they should be, definitely. But to take that as a 'given' is just spoiled. [quote=@Odin] spoken like a true american country build on the backs of poor foreigners that speak barely any english [/quote] Isn't it great the dutch paid others to do their atrocities for them. Made their resume' nice and clean. Or if they could afford to, they'd sailed across the world to commit the rest of their moral crimes. [quote=@Mara] spoken like a true American [/quote] "[i]I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.[/i]" Winston Churchill, spoken like a true Briton Now I don't believe my two examples are truly [i]examples[/i] of your countries, but it's an equivalency and I don't believe you should be so dismissive.