Wow, These guys really know their stuff when it comes to impact of Religion and Ethnic customs on social conformity. I wounder if they thought about the enviroments in which these people were raised. A tribal system, were they allowed their tribal elder to make decisions for them. I wonder if they thought about how different our Western culture must seam to them and how for the sense of security they remain in close nit communities. If you actually look at how tribal societies adapt to the Western life styles, it's not really a wake-up in the morning and bang I am wearing a suit and tie. Often it is not until the last generation that was raised in the orginal tribal system has passed that the later generations will fully intergrate into the local community. Not always but often...
Don't forget the Religion part!!!! It's huge...
"Liberty is the air America breathes . . . In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms . . . freedom of speech and expression . . . freedom of worship . . . freedom from want . . . freedom from fear ."
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
As for saying these people will destroy the American way of life... What is the American way of life? Is it Bling, bling and pimp'n, is it 4X4's and Budweiser, is Hockey and snow machines??? The day there is no room in the US for some one who willing wishes to wear a Burka, Shamag or having there britches sagging to their knees then that little Declation signed back in 1776 will have no meaning.
For Flash: So should I trade my yamulka for a baseball hat? Or is it only Islamic and Hindy cultures that pisses you off. Oh wait, but if you get rid of them then who's next... mmm....
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
-Emma Lazarus