Do you think we are doing enuff. shuld we send them all back wear they came from? Why do we do what we do with them. dose the system work. shuld it be changed. why dont we have a cultur. do we have a backbone. why do so meney people whant to come hear and why dont thay wate for perrimission
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By all accounts, we are putting them to work.  And that's fine with most people, especially the people who hire them.  So there is no problem.\n\nBut problems were made.  Because they became more numerous, they became more visible, and so they got more notice.  Eeek!  An immigrant!  Two, three, a dozen, right over there!\n\nNow we have to sort out frightened people's "concerns" against the economic benefits of having them here to do our crop picking, lawn care, babysitting and other low-end jobs.
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We're more of an entertainment-based culture. Allot of it probably also has to do with politicians (notice I didn't say which party; they're all at fault). They just want more money for themselves, and they're willing to steal from us and our military to get it.
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Still waiting for intelligent answers? I hope people are just busy typing, after the first two I saw.\nI have to say, I agree with you- we need the checks and balances back in our government. Stagnation was going on, and I think a few of us were about ready to take to the streets in rebellion. It's kind of a shame the way you have to MAKE people act right. I think we will see more cooperation, less arrogance now that they have gotten the wake up call of the elections. I am hopeful.
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If you mean "we" as a society, then no.  If "we", as a country than yes.  Sure there are better ways, but we don't have the politicians in place to find/encourage them.
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We are attuned & conditioned to act a certain way on the society which would have nothing to do with what one wants to really do. For Ex: When you have lost a dear one, you stand brave & accept everyone's condolescenses & convey your gratitude coz your are taught to do that. You would at that time wish they would all disappear & you give you some privacy.
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We should leave them alone.  Or perhaps you might be suggesting we enslave them, in a figurative sense of the word, by forcing them to live like westerners.  We may have the best system here in the west, but it is obvious, like in Iraq, that not all people are cut out to make a democracy work.  Interference would mean more war and more reconstruction.  Things are moving slow enough in Iraq, we really don't need to expand on our problems.
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back up, back up, backup, we as white men, came from England to get away from oppression.  We land here on this beautiful rock and right away, we start oppressing.  We drove the natives off 'their' land and stole there goods and their women.  Now would you be pissed?  I have 1/8 Choctaw in my blood and I'm pissed.  Pissed that my people we're treated just like the English, the same thing that brought them over here in the first place.
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It sounds like you've answered your own question.  There is still a problem in figuring our what the  culture wants and what some individuals in that culture might want.  Individual freedom should be balanced against the desires of the majority.
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I would have to say no. A lot of the things they do are there to help us, and a lot do. But then there are a lot of things that don't. We need a change in this country. A reform. Maybe a revolution. The corrupted needs to be cleaned up.
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Well, for starters we could learn their language.  Since everyone here is ticked off that they don't know ours- let's set and example and learn theirs.\n\nPS I'm going out on a limb here but I'm thinking PANCHA (like me) was being sarcastic in the post, attempting to show people how ridiculous some of our demands are, when we would blatantly REFUSE to do the same things we ask of them.
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I meet and work with people every day I would really really like to hurt, maim, or kill.  I think most people do.  What makes a society is the will power to NOT kill them.  I haven't followed through on those desires....  yet
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We are doing about that in sociology at the moment! \n\nWe are doing about how youth in increasingly subject to preventative targeting and restriction from public space, and we have already tried the classical music treatment in England and it has worked really well!!  Im not sure when exactly but it was about 2 yrs ago that I heard about it being played in train stations at night.\n\nI think it pretty much does work....who wants to listen to Stravinsky at their favourite hang out place? Who would want to listen to Public Enemy over a romantic meal? I think the reasons it works are obvious.\n\nI think its a great Idea and although most of the people on my course say it was an outrage and the result of unfair stereotyping..........they seem to forget that young ppl can feel intimidated by other young ppl and are the  main victms of youth crime. So the interests its protecting arent some great opressive "force" hovering above about the descend at any minute to encapture us all, as some ppl seem to annoyingly and stupidly believe. I think I am the only one being honest in  our seminars sometimes, the rest just follow whatever view is fashionable and non offensive to hold. It does my head in as you are probably seeing right now!!\n\nWhen has it been the right to intimidate people and cause trouble? Its addressing a real and exisiting problem and it frustrates me that no one wants to say it.
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We make easier for different cultures by printing literature in different languages. Making easier for them to function in society. The downside to that it helps to keep them separate because they do not have to learn the language. And in turn they group around others that are the same as their selves. That is one way we are failing as a society to assimilate others into our country. Its is a very complex problem with no easy answers. Many of the individuals that I have known that came in legally are proud of the fact that they made it in that way. And other than not having perfect English, they acted like "typical" Americans. I guess sneaking in through the back door into the country does not en still one with a sense of pride? It more than likely does not help that, we for the most part, turn a blind eye towards the situation hoping it will go away or right itself.
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You are absolutely correct of course.\nWe bend over backwards to accommodate others that have come to our country to the detriment of what our society has always stood for and believed in.\nWe are a Christian country....so live with it.  They should assimilate themselves into the new culture not vice versa. \nThis does not mean they cannot keep their traditions alive.\n\nSeems everything is becoming a world culture now.  That is rather sad because we lose our differences  and what keeps things so interesting on this earth.\nIf we all feel, behave and think the same...we become zombies.\n\nCulture and tradition is a precious thing and it should be kept alive, not assimilated with everyone else's.
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I've always said that we need to take care of our own first.  The truth is that we could take care of them all, and make things so much better for everyone, if the people in charge of all of this - the politicians and corporate leaders - weren't so d@mn corrupt.
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I agree because when we are young, the community is our guide. The community influences us and shapes our mind. Thet set the rules down what to obey and since we follow those ules, we essentially become the community and pass it down to our posterity - the teachings of the community. However, there are those ocasional rebels in the cmmunity and these are the people who actually influence our community the most by not following our laws but maybe changing them to make our community better.
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Tough answer, I guess we get used to them being around and providing the emotional, physcial support, etc... they provide.  It's probably mother nature's way off keep us together and insuring the continuance of the species.