A friend of mine posted a short rant on St. Patrick's Day about how irritated she was by the usurping of the holiday by various groups, specifically Americans. One of the things she mentioned was the apparently need of Americans to be 'this need to be so tribal in the US? And to aggressively promote & perpetuate it'. I wrote a rather long response, but part of it's applicable here as well, so I'm going to cut and paste and then I'm going to STOP TALKING because I'm sure that this is more than you wanted to know.
America likes immigrants just fine, so long as they look just like everyone else, talk like everyone else, eat hamburgers and pizza and McDonalds, wear the right clothes, and whatever you do, don't talk about where ever it is that you're from. It's a little interesting to me that if you google 'discrimination britain', you get about 15,000,000 hits. In the first ten, one is about people facing discrimination; the rest of the hits are about antidiscrimination policies. 'discrimination canada' gets 30,000,000 hits. In the top ten, one is a youth group's essay about discrimination, one is a government report on racism, and the other eight are about antidiscrimination policies and/or what to do if you feel that you're being discriminated against. 'Discrimination america' has 55,000,000 hits, which seems about right, given the comparative sizes of the countries. Then you look at the top ten hits, and you realise that there's nothing about preventing discrimination, or about policies. Instead you have ten hits of papers and essays and reports talking about marriage discrimination, racial discrimination, discrimination based on people's country of origin, and sexual discrimination. On the second page, there are two hits about antidiscrimination policies and legal aid for people who've been discriminated against. There's one hit for people who want to end discrimination against the white man. There are seven hits for about people suffering from discrimination, essays, articles, and case studies. It wasn't until the fourth page of results that I found information about anyone's antidiscrimination policies, let alone information about the federal laws designed to combat the problem.
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Re: two parts, because i can't shut up con't
Date: 2006-03-27 06:31 am (UTC)America likes immigrants just fine, so long as they look just like everyone else, talk like everyone else, eat hamburgers and pizza and McDonalds, wear the right clothes, and whatever you do, don't talk about where ever it is that you're from. It's a little interesting to me that if you google 'discrimination britain', you get about 15,000,000 hits. In the first ten, one is about people facing discrimination; the rest of the hits are about antidiscrimination policies. 'discrimination canada' gets 30,000,000 hits. In the top ten, one is a youth group's essay about discrimination, one is a government report on racism, and the other eight are about antidiscrimination policies and/or what to do if you feel that you're being discriminated against. 'Discrimination america' has 55,000,000 hits, which seems about right, given the comparative sizes of the countries. Then you look at the top ten hits, and you realise that there's nothing about preventing discrimination, or about policies. Instead you have ten hits of papers and essays and reports talking about marriage discrimination, racial discrimination, discrimination based on people's country of origin, and sexual discrimination. On the second page, there are two hits about antidiscrimination policies and legal aid for people who've been discriminated against. There's one hit for people who want to end discrimination against the white man. There are seven hits for about people suffering from discrimination, essays, articles, and case studies. It wasn't until the fourth page of results that I found information about anyone's antidiscrimination policies, let alone information about the federal laws designed to combat the problem.