Chinese Immigrants (and others...)

So I should note that the previous post has a few things I call 'jokes' in it. These 'jokes' are hidden among serious non 'joke' content, and are thus hard to find. I'll give you a hint: I don't think all Chinese people look alike. But that comment about the Chinese food is both a joke, and serious. Moving on...

A few days ago my mom sent me a forwarded email from some racist nationalist friend of hers. It was one of those emails disguised as a joke, but in this case the truth behind the joke was no good at all. It went something like this:

"How businesses should answer their phone:
'Press 1 for english,
Press 2 to wait until you learn english'
Remember, two people died for us, jesus and the american soldier. If you think that's pretty sweet, forward this to everyone you know so that they can share in your anti-immigration-for-jesus-campaign" I paraphrase that last bit, which was accompanied by a bunch of pictures of bald eagles and american flags.

The trouble isn't in that last bit, which is completely irrelevant to the point of the email, it's in the 'joke' at the beginning. Allow me to address the issue of immigration, and from now on, regardless of your stance on jesus and supporting the troops, you can feel bad about yourself for how you treat non-americans.

Our ancestors were immigrants once, it is their blood and culture that make america what it is today. If you look back on the relatively recent Irish immigration, they were treated very poorly when they first got here, but have now assimilated into american culture and added to it in significant ways. Complaining that hispanic people are only coming here to get jobs is silly. That's why our ancestors came here, don't be such a jerk. Complaining that they should learn english is also silly. Another reason they come to american is for an education. They don't take english classes in high school. Americans should crawl down off their pedestal for minute. All other countries speak several different languages. We're the lazy ones. We should know spanish because that is the language of our neighbors. Especially given our wealthy status, education should be no problem (it is a problem, but not when it comes to learning other languages, that's taught in high schools all over the country). So to conclude this rant, immigration isn't bad, americans are bad because of the way they treat immigrants and each other. If a mexican is going to make my electronics I'd rather he do it as an american citizen, making a decent living and being able to support his family.