MB Civic

By Amy Chua | Monday, December 17, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…f you don’t speak Spanish, Miami really can feel like a foreign country. In any restaurant, the conversation at the next table is more likely to be Spanish than English. And Miami’s population is only 65 percent Hispanic. El Paso is 76 percent Latino. Flushing, N.Y., is 60 percent immigrant, mainly Chinese.

Chinatowns and Little Italys have long been part of America’s urban landscape, but would it be all right to have entire U.S. cities where most people spoke and did business in Chinese, Spanish or even Arabic? Are too many Third World, non-English-speaking immigrants destroying our national identity?

For some Americans, even asking such questions is racist. At the other end of the spectrum, the conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly fulminates against floods of immigrants who threaten to change America’s ‘complexion’ and replace what he calls the ‘white Christian male power structure.’….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401333_pf.html