Hmm...It's very different in Trinidad. We are a multi ethnic and multi cultural country. We even have an Inter-religious organisation to represent all the major religious denominations.
we celebrate Christmas, Eid, Divali, Baptist Holiday, Indian Arrival Day, Emancipation Day, Change of the Chinese Year, Hosay, St. Patrick's day. And there is never any problems with protests, or disrespect shown to any of the groups. Almost everyone lights Deyas at Divali or drives around admiring the bamboo artwork. For Eid you eat Sawine from your Muslim neighbours. During HOsay the streets are lined with people looking on at the celebrations. St. Patrick's Day everyone goes to a bar wearing green to take a drink. If there were a noticeable Mexican community locally we'd celebrate cinco de mayo too in the same way. Not that protests or free speech is not protected...but no one would really do that. It isn't being patriotic, it is being inflammatory. The motivation is not innocent.The motivation is to say this is America for Americans and fuck you Mexican immigrants. And if they had put that on their t-shirts and on their bandanas it would not have been allowed. I don't see why being passive aggressive makes it any better or more acceptable. I don't understand where the US and THEM comes in. America would be absolutely nothing without its immigrants. America is an entire continent of Immigrants. On 6 May 2010 11:00, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > The only right in this regard is that you have the right to be > offended...just like I am offended by KKK and Nazi rallies, they still have > the right to spew their shit as long as they are not violating the rights > of > others. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
