. When people from other countries come to the US, we fully expect them to speak in English.
I don't expect a non US citizen who is here on vacation/visiting to speak English. When I EXPECT english to be spoken is when you are a US citizen that lives here.....plans on living here for some time. The difference between early immigrants and the immigrants now is that the early immigrants came over and learned the American language, the culture and became 'American'.
Immigrants now come to our country to live but expect that they don't have to assimilate at all. The old immigrants still managed to keep thier culture and celebrate it all the while 'becoming' American. Immigrants now days don't even attempt to 'become' American. That is what bothers me. If you don't want to 'be' American, then don't come here. But for all the 'bad' crap that gets talked about America, there sure as heck is an awful lot of people both legally and illegally clammoring to get into this country.....WAY more than ANY other country in the WORLD.
This picking on/trash talking/etc. of America not only in this Forum/thread but on a national level is complete BS! If you want to believe that America is some big, bad country then go ahead but you're a fool. Like every country the US has it's fair share of idiots who get elected to power but all in all when history pans itself out and all of our bodies have returned to the earth, America will remain the beacon of HOPE it has been since it's inception.
For the longest time the United States boasted that we were the greatest country on Earth, as well as all that God bless America stuff. We made it seem that we could do without any other countries were were the elite members of the human race. I think a lot of people in other countries just saw that as selfish and narrow minded.
We still are. Which country consistently gets looked to when (pic a country) is in trouble or NEEDS something? It's not Russia, it's not Switzerland or Brazil. AMERICA...every time, all the time. I think where you use the word 'arrogant' I use the word 'confident'. And we should be. Other countries, especially the middle east look at us with envy and jealousy because our system DOES work. Like I said, there are flaws but it's not the system it's the tards' elected to govern the system and they will come and go.
There is no denying America is at a cross roads of sorts. And I personally am sick and tired of people declaring America 'dead' or 'secondary' to (insert country). China is overhyped and thanks to the media you'd never know that they really don't 'own' that much of America....a very small percentage. And, if it weren't for America and some ridiculously unfair trade agreement that we (for whatever reason) have allowed to go on for too long, China is still in the 19th century. They should be kissing our butts for ushering them into the 21st century and we should start to hold thier feet to the fire of the insanly lop sided 'trade' agreement in place.