why do " white Americans" believe that they have more rights to this country than any other immigrant?
402603
No legal immigrants have more rights than those that break the law
783769
GREAT question. Especially since so many countries do not allow their native citizens to talk badly about them.\n\nTo me, the fact that Americans enjoy so many freedoms and opportunities for wealth causes others to be jealous of us. The jealousy is often expressed through bashing. For me the proof that America is a great country is reflected by the number of people who try so hard to get here. If this country and its citizens were as bad as the people bashing it thought, we wouldn't have the illegal immigration problems, nor would so many people make the effort to come here to live legally, or to become naturalized citizens.
630202
Hypocrisy.  Americans conveniently forget that unless they're Native Americans, they're *all* immigrants.  \n\nInstead of "I got mine, you get yours", we believe in "I got mine, so screw you."\n\nNo wonder the world hates us.
454235
People have been conquering foreign lands and peoples for all of earth's history. And yet only white Americans are supposed to hang their heads and give everything back. To whom shall we give it with all the mixing of races? And where should we go with so much mixed heritage in our blood? Things are the way they are now and we have to deal with it. We have laws for a reason. We have to protect the citizens who legally live here now. Yes we should protest. Where are all the loyal flag waving Americans now? Sitting on their butts crying for the plight of the poor illegals. If we were forcibly invaded by middle eastern people it wouldn't be happening this way.
955771
I am one of a dying breed in that I believe that in order to live in a country where you have rights, you sometimes have to fight for them, and while I do believe that everyone is entitled to there beliefs, and has the right to express their opinions there are times when doing so is counter productive for the welfare of the country that you live in. Rights are not without boundaries. My rights stop where yours begin, and the same applies to to yours. If you can't love your country, at least have some respect for it.
548975
ok, lets get the fact straight here. yes america has alot of immigrants and such. Most of the ones living here today not from mexico got here LEGALLY and WANTED to be part of the united states so they could make a better life for themselves by hard work and they worked hard to learn english so they could fit in an BE american. Immigrants from mexico only want cash to send back to their home country. And yes we also have a constitution with a bill of rights, these rights are for U.S citizens ONLY. If these people want rights then they should come here legally and recieve them instead of trying to steal them. The reason why we have a country of such prosperity is due to our fathers and their fathers before them and so on. due to their hard work and sacrifice is why we enjoy the freedoms we do. These people should have to work, and work hard to become american citizen just as the immigrants form that past did from europe whom sold almost everything they had for a ticket on a steam ship to get here and then go thru Elis Island. What most of these immigrants want now from mexico is a hand out. simply because they are here now no matter for how many years is no reason to give them amnesty! Any one here illegaly should be put on a bus and dropped back in mexico. Little to people know if an american is caught in Mexico illegaly thats exactly what happens.
199276
Because we are the land of opportunity and freedom. Despite what we may or may not feel or agree on about America...compared to many places, it's a wonderful place to live and to follow your dreams..because you can.
168644
I'm proud to be a born an raised American. We stand up for ourselves not blowup ourselves. We educate our children not kill'em. We all live on the same planet an someone has to make sure YOUR kids have a world to live in. America is the land of free and opportunity. All the immigrants here can't complain, I mean come on...After all, they left their country to come to the States. U.S.A. ROCKS THE GLOBE!!
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I don't think we need MORE civil rights.  We simply need more clarity about what our rights really are.  The problems we see today are a result of a very cloudy view that most people have over what are rights and what are merely desires.  \n\nImmigrants, for example, do not have a right to citizenship.  I respect their desire for citizenship, but this is not something they can demand.  We need to go back and rethink what it means to have rights.  Until we do that, it all becomes a big power struggle over who gets what they want.\n\nLiberty for all!
422947
No I don't think that that should be done to ANY person from any country. Why can't some people understand THAT THEY ONLY WANT A BETTER LIFE? Why is this so hard to understand? Did they sent the white back to Europe? No. I wonder what did the native Americans wanted to do.....
45087
People want their rights.
652678
I think the immigration of different people in the US is a definite boost to the United States' fairly progressive mentality and progress as a global leader.\n\nThe first immigrants to the US (mainly from Europe and Latin America), you must remember, were the rejects of their home countries. I speculate its the nature of their rejection by their home countries that made them want to form their adopted country into one that is progressive.\n\nThe inclusive aspect of the US today only came about after long injustices to the ones performing the labor (Africans, Chinese and other Asians, etc.) were finally addressed and fought over. The melting pot that the US has become only came about after the civil rights movement and a civil war.\n\nBecause there are so many cultures in the US, immigrants today tend to bring many positive aspects of their culture to the mix.\n\nAs far as the "intelligence" of certain races over others, you have to first consider what works best for a particular civilization. You can't judge a certain culture, say, Native American, with something totally different, like European culture. That's ignorant and insensitive. Value sets of others have to be taken into consideration...perhaps it's Native American value to respect nature and live alongside it, whereas it's a European value to do your best to manipulate it to benefit you. These two value sets can't be fairly compared--and when they meet, unfortunately, one will probably dominate the other by virtue of their fundamental values.\n\nBy the way, my parents came from the Philippines in the 1960s. I'm a second-generation American of mixed ethnicities, I'm half Filipino, a quarter Chinese, and a quarter Norwegian/Spanish. I can't imagine living the way I do in any other homogenous country...the US is really the best place for people of mixed heritages to live, in my opinion.
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I wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayflower, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots\n\nst\n====================================================\nManicman:\nGive them time to, well assimilate!, as did most American forefathers! Let them understand that this (taxes, education and stuff like that) would be good for them, if you try to drive em out and hound them and try all the racism, then you are just going to increase the hatred, and have them doing stuff  like propogating the Mexican flag. \n\nDon't you understand that if you corner anybody, that being is going to cry out for help, and that's what they are doing, making the world aware of their plight by waving the Mex flag and burning the Stars and Stripes? What better way to come on prime time news than this?
573595
Are you kidding me?  They have more rights than legal citizens.  They can get away with coming into the country illegally, skimming off of our welfare system and identity theft.  AND GET AWAY WITH IT
1079555
I can't help but wonder where everyone's sense is. I don't know about "owed something," but if the majority of Americans truly believe that people of color are *not* discriminated against in our society, we are in a very sad state.\n\nRead the Constitution, people. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights is one of the most incredible documents ever written. One of its overall purposes was to establish a government that PROTECTED THE MINORITY FROM THE MAJORITY. Because in all times and all places, it is the minority that NEEDS protection.\n\nWhen I hear people say that Hispanics and blacks are lazy welfare bums, I want to scream. Do any of you truly believe that a mom chooses to live in a studio apartment with her kids with maybe $47 a month left over for clothes, soap. laundry, transportation, entertainment, school lunch, birthday gifts, furniture, dishes, pencils, toilet paper, shampoo, books and aluminum foil because she's trying to take advantage of you!? One minute's thought should dispel THAT belief. They do it because they stumbled into the situation, and can find no way out of it.\n\nNo, not all people of color are in that situation, but there are reasons that a higher percentage of the poor people in our country are minorities. It is because, in spite of what you say, they DO NOT have the same opportunities as the majority. Every day I read numerous posts here that begin, "I am not a racist, but . . ." and then they paint every black or brown American with the same lazy, stupid, criminal, drug addict brush. The people writing some of those posts are the people doing the hiring.\n\nAgain, in every society, the marginalized minority *is* the group that commits the most crimes per capita. Why? What the heck have they got to lose? \n\nCan you imagine what it's like being pulled over for "driving while black?" I can't. I am over 50, and I've been pulled over ONCE. Will Smith, one of the best-known, richest, and most respected African-Americans, said that he drives a fancy car and lives in a fancy neighborhood and gets pulled over about ONCE A MONTH. How do you think that kind of harassment might change your attitudes and behaviors? What might happen to your self-esteem if every time you walked into a store, the owner followed 20 steps behind you blatently staring at you?\n\nIf there's one science book between 5 students, aren't we all responsible for the kids' poor education? Should that mom above stop buying toilet paper to save up for six months for a $140 science book?\n\nEach individual must be held responsible for his own behavior. But to pretend that there's some kind of inborn propensity for evil among some groups is not only stupid, it's how societies fall.\n\nBTW, I am white. I am not currently on welfare, but have been. I am a single mom. I tend toward political conservatism, and I am ashamed of my countrymen's lack of understanding of simple social dynamics. Americans are ONE people with a beautiful tapestry of varied roots. The sooner we realize it, the better off this country will be. And if we don't, it will tear us apart at the seams. In fact, it already is.\n\nI don't know the answers. I know that things are a bit better than they were 50 years ago. But sometimes I wonder if it might not have been easier when words like ni**er and spi*k weren't politically incorrect. At least then people didn't start their rants with "I am not a racist, but . . ." The lines, at least, were clearer.
555296
What I know is that the USA are thought to be the center of the world.It seems to me that only Americans have the right to live.
722224
Yes God bless America; The one country that imigrants can count on for demanding their rights, rather legal or illegal. I am just amazed that the USA allows all this to continue. If we were to go to other countries and demand our rights, such as housing, food stamps, help paying our bills, sneaking in as many of our culture as we can, so that we to can be a burden on other countries, so we and our families can take away money's, jobs, medical, foodstamp, etc from the that said country; man we would be kicked out asap or thrown in jail, we would have no right, we would not be able to protest for them, we would not be able to allowed to take down their flag, put up our flag then preceed to hang their flag upside down below our flag. Hell we would be thrown in jail, if we lived long enough to make it there. So heck yea only in America can you NOT be from here and demand American rights. This is America, the land of the free and the brave, and we should take it back before another war breaks out with a country that is insisting on their rights, they have their own country, they do not deserve ours. Do you see Americans demanding their country? Do you see Americans sneaking accross the borders everyday and sneaking their familys accross the boards? Of corse not. If you want your rights, go back to YOUR Country and demand them there. Not here! This is our USA and we will defend her at all costs.