[rayiner]

The things you’re describing are superficial. My wife’s dad is a Japanophile and she grew up eating sushi, etc. That doesn’t make her Japanese.

Assimilation is about how you think and what you value. It’s not just knowing about the American political system, but understanding and embracing the values and worldview that created it.

[yulker]

Go ahead and tell us what it means to be a real American then

[sersi]

And how much does the Trump administration understand and embrace the values and worldview that created the American political system. How much do they agree with the Founding Fathers? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’?

[rayiner]

Honestly, not very well. Trump is from an immigrant background. He doesn’t talk like an American (unlike Obama or Bush or Clinton). The American right these days is filled with people from recent immigrant ancestry whose understanding of American values is something of an impersonation of the real thing.

The founder’s America ceased to exist at the national level with the election of FDR.

[pstuart]

Was that "Rose-uh-velt" or "Roos-uh-velt"?

[selimthegrim]

FDR was quite blue-blooded himself.

[dwa3592]

>>Assimilation is about how you think and what you value. It’s not just knowing about the American political system, but understanding and embracing the values and worldview that created it.

Now you are just bullshitting bc you think you have ran out of substantive things to say, which you never had, to begin with.

[rayiner]

Do you think that people from different cultures don’t have different values and worldviews?

[pstuart]

Do you think that kids born in America (or anywhere for that matter) don't care about fitting in with the other kids? Did you? When you were a kid were you more concerned about your Bangladeshi heritage or not being an outsider amongst your peers?

And yet I'm sure you didn't lose respect for your family and background, because one can do both things simultaneously. But those other brown people are different and bad and have bad culture that ruins things, right?