That said, I'm not too keen that a huge portion of residents in places like Beverly Hills and Pacific Palisades speak other languages in preference over English. Individual cases are all unique, but overall it's a symptom of our country having been sold out over decades to other countries. Farsi, Hebrew, Chinese, Russian and even British accents are all overrepresented in the priciest neighborhoods.
Wasn’t America built on the sweat and tears of immigrants? All are binded by a common language and set of core values. That’s the whole point of America isn’t it?
As I said, every case is different. But I've seen plenty of cases of people that have risen to a level of prosperity by leveraging corruption in another country, and then coming over here expecting and promoting similar corruption here, supplanting the idea of a meritocracy. With enough saturation from another culture, enough expectation of corruption, the corruption becomes the standard. I've seen plenty of immigrant neighborhoods where government grift is disgustingly rife.
If they are bound to the culture the immigration is manageable. But when there is no bond, it easily can be an adversarial or at least clannish relationship.
People speaking another language isn't wrong just by itself, but a large percentage of people who can't understand each other is one indicator that the people who actually built the country have been taken advantage of.
Being priced out of a neighborhood by gentrification is acceptable if everyone agrees to the economic terms by which it takes place. But if all the new gentry are foreigners who don't integrate (speaking another language is one indicator), it points to conquest of the old system by a new foreign one. That's the part I don't like.
Obviously I don't know this case, and whether this lady has usurped her way into some of the best real estate in the land, or if she's a solid hard-working contributor. I generally like to assume the best of people. I'm sure if I spoke Slovenian in Los Angeles, I'd relish the rare opportunity to actually use it in conversation.
Good for Melania.
That said, I'm not too keen that a huge portion of residents in places like Beverly Hills and Pacific Palisades speak other languages in preference over English. Individual cases are all unique, but overall it's a symptom of our country having been sold out over decades to other countries. Farsi, Hebrew, Chinese, Russian and even British accents are all overrepresented in the priciest neighborhoods.
Wasn’t America built on the sweat and tears of immigrants? All are binded by a common language and set of core values. That’s the whole point of America isn’t it?
As I said, every case is different. But I've seen plenty of cases of people that have risen to a level of prosperity by leveraging corruption in another country, and then coming over here expecting and promoting similar corruption here, supplanting the idea of a meritocracy. With enough saturation from another culture, enough expectation of corruption, the corruption becomes the standard. I've seen plenty of immigrant neighborhoods where government grift is disgustingly rife.
If they are bound to the culture the immigration is manageable. But when there is no bond, it easily can be an adversarial or at least clannish relationship.
People speaking another language isn't wrong just by itself, but a large percentage of people who can't understand each other is one indicator that the people who actually built the country have been taken advantage of.
Being priced out of a neighborhood by gentrification is acceptable if everyone agrees to the economic terms by which it takes place. But if all the new gentry are foreigners who don't integrate (speaking another language is one indicator), it points to conquest of the old system by a new foreign one. That's the part I don't like.
Obviously I don't know this case, and whether this lady has usurped her way into some of the best real estate in the land, or if she's a solid hard-working contributor. I generally like to assume the best of people. I'm sure if I spoke Slovenian in Los Angeles, I'd relish the rare opportunity to actually use it in conversation.