Hello; This statement has some kernels of truth to it but the imagined expanse is a bit too broad. I am not an immigrant. Nor were my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents and so on back a ways. I know there will be a first or two immigrant somewhere a ways back.
As you said the native peoples were here before the Europeans came along 1n the 1400's. However some think the native people are thought to have migrated from Europe during an ice age. The later Europeans took the place away from the "native peoples'.
The point I am getting at is enough time has past (over two hundred years) since the founding of the country so that we can have a culture of our own. A culture that those who come here at this much later date need to acclimate themselves to.
Hello; Continuing on with my above comments. I call BS on the idea that those of us well established in this country MUST accept the social norms of late comers.
An example; say I go to a country where "honor killings", stoning death for adultery, female circumcision are the norm. Should I expect to have them change those practices because I have different points of view. I say no. If a country has a language different from mine or practices different from mine and I do not want to go with their flow then I should stay away.
Hello; Again I call a bit of BS on this I MUST think about assimilating a foreign culture into my own stuff. No I do not have to accommodate any such thing. It may not be playing fair by some standard you have dreamed up but it is not a must do on my list.
