'Few of their children in the country learn English. The signs in ourstreets have inscriptions in both languages. Unless the streamof importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all theadvantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even ourgovernment will become precarious'.Who said this?
It was Ben Franklin, deploring the wave of Germans pouring into the colony ofPennsylvania in the 1750's.
http://www.historycarper.com/resources/twobf2/letter18.htm
Hey, wait... I'm German!
It reminds me of things being said now about Mexican immigrants. There are so many myths that are so readily believed, much like Franklin did here.
For a great source on many of those myths see The Justice for Immigrants link below.
If all these false suppositions were boiled down, it reveals a deadly and profound and ungodly disease often referred to as the "us vs. them" mentality.
They are us and we are them. Be it Germans, Mexicans, Polish, Jews, Blacks, Persians or one per-centers, 99 per-centers or any other division we could come up with, the fact remains, God sent His only begotten som for all of us.
That and that alone should be the prevailing fact in how we perceive and relate to each other.
Then we can deal with the whole denomination issue!
http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/documents/immigration-myths.pdf
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