How much and how far should we expect immigrants from other countries to confrom to the culture they have moved into? For example, my state Minnesota, has an extremely large Somalian population.
At the middle school my sisters go to, its custom to have a party on Halloween! They've always done it. However this year, a lot of Somalian Muslim parents have complained that they will take their children out of school that day because Halloween is apparently against their religion. The school board issued letters to all children nothing that all Halloween celebrations were CANCELED. Now, my sister has to go to class everyday with a bunch of Halloween decorations in the corner of her classroom that none of the kids can touch now.
Now, my honest opinion before I go into a long rant is that this is,
BULLSHIT.
Rant continues below.
Go fuck yourselves Oak Point Intermediate School.
I seriously haven't been this ****** in awhile. I'm not racist, but seriously, you don't move into this country and demand that our culture and traditions conform to YOU. It's BS. My sister has tons of Halloween decorations and stuff that now they can't use and it just sits there in the corner. Might as well cancel Christmas celebrations too! Hell any celebration that isn't YOUR belief.
So, Oak Point intermediate school has essentially ruined the school day of hundreds of children that were excited to have a halloween party to conform and kiss the ass of a small minority of them. I'm sorry but the last time I checked, it was kinda heartless to do that to kids.
If Halloween OMG OFFENDS YOU YEAH? you, you can either
A) Simply take your kid out of school that day. It's not like your missing out on SERIOUS ACADEMICS OH NO when your frigg'n ten years old.
B) Move back to whichever country you came from.
Disclaimer: Is fully aware that this may be interpreted as racist, but strongly recommends that you don't have the balls to mention such because you'll effectively make yourself out to be a pretentious jackass.
/rant over
But this is just one example. I'm sure there are hundreds of other assimilation conflicts throughout the country and other countries. Do the Somali's have a case here in the example I brought up? Am I just a ticked off American prick?
I don't mind if you keep your culture. I respect it. Wear your traditional African garb, speak your native language, introduce your traditions into our culture, and I'll be just jolly to learn about you. However, DO NOT waltz in here and ask things to conform to you. It's completely disrespectful and unrealistic.
At the middle school my sisters go to, its custom to have a party on Halloween! They've always done it. However this year, a lot of Somalian Muslim parents have complained that they will take their children out of school that day because Halloween is apparently against their religion. The school board issued letters to all children nothing that all Halloween celebrations were CANCELED. Now, my sister has to go to class everyday with a bunch of Halloween decorations in the corner of her classroom that none of the kids can touch now.
Now, my honest opinion before I go into a long rant is that this is,
BULLSHIT.
Rant continues below.
Go fuck yourselves Oak Point Intermediate School.
I seriously haven't been this ****** in awhile. I'm not racist, but seriously, you don't move into this country and demand that our culture and traditions conform to YOU. It's BS. My sister has tons of Halloween decorations and stuff that now they can't use and it just sits there in the corner. Might as well cancel Christmas celebrations too! Hell any celebration that isn't YOUR belief.
So, Oak Point intermediate school has essentially ruined the school day of hundreds of children that were excited to have a halloween party to conform and kiss the ass of a small minority of them. I'm sorry but the last time I checked, it was kinda heartless to do that to kids.
If Halloween OMG OFFENDS YOU YEAH? you, you can either
A) Simply take your kid out of school that day. It's not like your missing out on SERIOUS ACADEMICS OH NO when your frigg'n ten years old.
B) Move back to whichever country you came from.
Disclaimer: Is fully aware that this may be interpreted as racist, but strongly recommends that you don't have the balls to mention such because you'll effectively make yourself out to be a pretentious jackass.
/rant over
But this is just one example. I'm sure there are hundreds of other assimilation conflicts throughout the country and other countries. Do the Somali's have a case here in the example I brought up? Am I just a ticked off American prick?
I don't mind if you keep your culture. I respect it. Wear your traditional African garb, speak your native language, introduce your traditions into our culture, and I'll be just jolly to learn about you. However, DO NOT waltz in here and ask things to conform to you. It's completely disrespectful and unrealistic.
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