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Lol. You have to be kidding. By current standards nearly all of the soldiers who fought Nazis were homophobic.
Thank God for progress.
So much progress! Look at the world that generation built for us, and look at how we've utterly destroyed it. Keep in mind that the decline is mostly due to one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
PROGRESS!
Definitely the gays' fault... lol
For any non-Americans reading this thread, the views posted by phattonez do not represent the vast majority of US citizens.
Thankfully his ideologies are only held by a very small minority here.
Are you the kind if person who gets angry or even afraid when you hear others around you speaking in a language you don't understand?
If you're an American citizen, do you get angry when people in America speak a language that isn't English?
Would you ever confront someone speaking a language you don't understand and yell at them to stop speaking that way?
Personally, I find foreign languages quite intriguing and often times beautiful to listen to.
When members of the opposite sex speak a language I don't understand it can quickly become quite sexy in my mind.
I can't imagine getting pissed off at anyone for simply speaking in a language I don't understand.
It's such a fringe, extreme and incredibly irrelevant opinion that phattonez is literally the only person to hold it, and DP has got some real nutters.
For any non-Americans reading this thread, the views posted by phattonez do not represent the vast majority of US citizens.
Thankfully his ideologies are only held by a very small minority here.
It's such a fringe, extreme and incredibly irrelevant opinion that phattonez is literally the only person to hold it, and DP has got some real nutters.
Lol. Okay.No, everyone who is even marginally culturally conservative gets banned around here. This forum has become an echo chamber.
The real question is this: why are we allowing people to immigrate who can't speak English? Does that really benefit Americans?
So much progress! Look at the world that generation built for us, and look at how we've utterly destroyed it. Keep in mind that the decline is mostly due to one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
PROGRESS!
Yes..... Violent crime rates are significantly reduced by extremely high incarceration rates of non-violent offenders :doh
(Actually the reduction in crime rates had much more to do with the switch to unleaded fuel, removing lead paint from homes, and making abortions more available.)
Brian Clowes said:Statistician David Murray confirmed that young males between the ages of 17 and 25 commit the majority of crimes. However, if abortion had reduced crime, the crime rates in the United States would have dropped first among young people. They did not. Instead, the number of crimes committed by older people dropped first. Nearly 60% of the decline in murder since 1990 involved killers aged 25 and older — who were born before Roe v. Wade.8
Murray also found that other nations with high abortion rates showed a large increase in crime about eighteen years after they legalized abortion. For example, in Great Britain, which legalized abortion in 1968, violent crime has been rising steeply since about 1985 ― exactly when it should have been declining, according to the Donohue‑Levitt thesis. Additionally, Russia, with the highest abortion rate on earth, has experienced a tidal wave of every kind of violent crime following the breakup of the Soviet Union.9
Are you the kind if person who gets angry or even afraid when you hear others around you speaking in a language you don't understand?
If you're an American citizen, do you get angry when people in America speak a language that isn't English?
Would you ever confront someone speaking a language you don't understand and yell at them to stop speaking that way?
Personally, I find foreign languages quite intriguing and often times beautiful to listen to.
When members of the opposite sex speak a language I don't understand it can quickly become quite sexy in my mind.
I can't imagine getting pissed off at anyone for simply speaking in a language I don't understand.
If anyone in Canada got angry at hearing a different language I suspect we would all be dead. The nation is official bi-lingual and most metro areas you will hear somewhere between two to twenty languages at any given day.
Here in the west, English is the most frequently used language, and Punjabi is second or tied with Mandarin...but depending on what part of town, you will hear Punjabi anywhere, clustered in some pockets. In Chinatown you will hear four languages as well as some Vietnamese, and the language of much commerce is Cantonese or Mandarin, I speak a bit of both.
In my building there is Spanish, English, Swedish, French and some Mandarin.
With that, those who get irritated at hearing another language I doubt stay very long, and I'm happy about that. I am not a linguist, my french is "interesting" to polite Quebeckers and "humorous" for France born French, but I can good morning or hello in Mandarin, Cantonese, French, English and Punjabi.
It has come to be my belief that you don't have to be strong to be a diverse country, our strength is in our diversity and acceptance of one another. The coolest thing I have seen recently was an elderly woman recently who spoke no English, and become lost while riding a bus. No one could understand her, until a woman holding a cell phone stood up at the rear and said "It's OK my boyfriend speaks five dialects and I have him on my cell."
Case closed
It has come to be my belief that you don't have to be strong to be a diverse country, our strength is in our diversity and acceptance of one another. The coolest thing I have seen recently was an elderly woman recently who spoke no English, and become lost while riding a bus. No one could understand her, until a woman holding a cell phone stood up at the rear and said "It's OK my boyfriend speaks five dialects and I have him on my cell."
Case closed
Imagine how easy it would have been for her had she been in an area where everyone spoke her language.
Most of the time I know the language and speak back to them. I do see many people in the conservative states who get real edgy and panicked looking.Are you the kind if person who gets angry or even afraid when you hear others around you speaking in a language you don't understand?
If you're an American citizen, do you get angry when people in America speak a language that isn't English?
Would you ever confront someone speaking a language you don't understand and yell at them to stop speaking that way?
Personally, I find foreign languages quite intriguing and often times beautiful to listen to.
When members of the opposite sex speak a language I don't understand it can quickly become quite sexy in my mind.
I can't imagine getting pissed off at anyone for simply speaking in a language I don't understand.
and?
You're not really making a point unless its that people who speak 'foreign' languages shouldn't travel.
For the record, the southern drawl of some Americans is extremely offensive to most of the world.
BTW, English is not the most spoken language. One day, and soon, you will have to learn Mandarin to get by in life
Most of the time I know the language and speak back to them. I do see many people in the conservative states who get real edgy and panicked looking.
So how great is diversity when no one understands what you're speaking? You pointed to a practical problem with diversity.
You probably shouldn't travel to a place where it's going to be difficult for you to get by.
I'm not offended by it. Why are you?
I'll be just fine if I remain in English speaking areas.
and stay out of Canada.
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