Ah thank God I'm not stuck out on my own.

And I don't even push the whole "learn English" thing, even though, um, yeah it's gonna help. My problem around where I live is that in high school the only language offered was Spanish. Okay, that's fine, but we get a lot of mirgrant workers through our town, so when a friend of mine was trying to be nice and speak Spanish to a family she was checking out at the grocery store, they just laughed at her and she felt like a total idiot.

Made me extra happy when I was in my Japanese class and our instructor told us that when you try and speak Japanese to someone they get excited and all pleased that you're attempting to learn their language.

I can't respect someone who doesn't respect people who give effort.

Besides, I mow my own damn lawn anyway. =P

In the long run, it's not that I don't think people should come here (even though I think this country is overcrowded anyway and we still have tons of our own problems with homelessness, etc. - did you know more of the middle class is slipping into the working class and lower?), but if they are, then they're just going to have to get in line. The American dream isn't really much of a dream in some respects and even those of us who work our asses off our whole life don't make what we always dreamed we would. I could start citing stuff, but I'm done with that project so I'm not going to. Anyway, if you'd like to live in this country and be equal, well then as Yukimura said, equal rights for equal responsibilities. Hear hear.