America is one of three countries on the North American continent. It, in and of itself, is not a continent.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:317595 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
