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Rex Alexander
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Bryant Smith
> Beautiful Oil Painting of your Family Crest
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Earlier in this preposterous thread (which "rex"
keeps alive by repeated repostings), Bronwen Edwards
wrote:
QUOTE
Many immigrants (not just from EUrope) to the U.S. thought
they were doing their children a favor by making them speak
English only (if they were non-English speaking in their
homeland) and telling them that they were only Americans,
nothing more (or less). In fact, they did them an unwitting
disservice - as most of us know today, biculturalism and
bilingualism are preferable to isolationism. What happened,
of course,in the U.S. is that the grandchildren or
great-grandchildren turned to their immigrant ancestors if
they were fortunate enough to still have them and begged to
know who they were IN ADDITION TO being "just Americans".
UNQUOTE
What most of us do know is that Bronwen has a thing about
minority cultures especially NA. What Bronwen does not seem
to know is that:
** "Bilingualism" in public education is far from unanimously
espoused among the Hispanic people in California; Similar
divergences of feelings can be found among many other groups.
** "Biculturalism" (if the word has any meaning) is not something
chosen or rejected by immigrants, their descendants or anyone
else. It is a fact of life. I still eat my oatmeal with
butter and brown sugar because that's the way my Pennsylvania
Dutch/Deutsch ancestors were doing it before the Revolution.
** "Isolationism" is a malapropism in this context. Americans who
doubt the wisdom of American interference in the affairs of other
nations or regions include many of us who are bi- or multi-lingual
and who honor our ancestral non-English cultural inheritance.
** Many of us "just Americans" have been brought up well aware of our
multicultural backgrounds and have not needed to go begging for the
information. Many of us who are researching our personal genealogies
are not looking for cultural roots of which we are already aware, but
just trying to garner detailed knowledge in a structured way.
Nevertheless, we can proudly say we are "Americans first" if not
"just Americans."
Saludos
Bryant Smith
Playa Palo Seco
Costa Rica