Do you think that Mexicans
coming over here is ok???miley211
In all honesty, I think the idea of borders should be retired. Is it ok for the Mexicans to come “over here?” It may not be the most popular response, but I don’t see the problem with immigration. I think now that it has been established that humans, everywhere, are all human together, and there is no difference between us aside from culture, the concepts of country, borders, and immigration are outmoded. Belonging to a country is no different than belonging to a particular political party, and in some instances, a lot easier to change!
People complain that immigrants “take our jobs,” but with the invention of outsourcing, most of our jobs don’t even exist in America any more. The next time you get a call from a telemarketter, check the accent. Most telemarketters seem to be from India these days. So when people immigrate to America and “take our jobs,” what job are they taking exactly? For the most part, immigrant workers do the crap jobs no one else wants… the menial jobs and the labor intensive ones. Just like the outsourced telemarketing jobs. Do you want these jobs? I don’t. I feel sorry for immigrant workers most of the time because of the crap jobs they “steal” from “hard working” Americans.
Borders and anti-immigration laws only serve to isolate us and create artifical problems. The sooner we stop treating anyone who is different as an outsider, the sooner we can begin to embrace each other for our enriching cultural differences. Being human should be the most important part of existing, but all this cultural discrimination only serves to distract us from finding out exactly what that means.
April 13th
This is the second day of the Cerealia.
Thailand’s Buddhists welcome the New Year for three days with ceremonies of cleansing. Statues of the Buddha are ritually bathed and people throw water at each other to wash away the old year’s evils.
The Spring festival of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty, was held today. Libertas commemorated the creation of the Atrium Libertatis, the temple of the goddess Liberty.
This is the second day of the Japanese Kamo-Tama-Yori-Hime festival. The two nigi-mitama are taken from the haiden of the two main shrines and placed in two other mikoshi. The four mikoshi are then brought into the haiden of another shrine, the Obuyu-jinja. They are placed in separate compartments on a platform and decorated with flowers, fruit, mirrors, paint-brushes and ‘anything that may amuse a child’. Children offer artificial flowers. At 4 pm, they are offered tea, and at 9 pm, about a hundred men come to shake the four mikoshi violently for one and a half hours (symbolic of rigors of child-birth), while a ritual dance (shishimai) is performed for their benefit. They are thrown from the platform (representing the actual child-birth) and each mikoshi is taken back to its own shrine. The child-kami that was born is called Kamo-wakaikozuchi-no-kami.
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There are some pics of the Thailand New Year’s festival on starrynight’s blog if you want to check them out…
I honestly couldn’t agree with you moar. The whole issue of “illegal immigration”–or immigration, period–in this country is completely and totally founded in racism.
To me, our ancestors were pretty much all immigrants. Even going way back to the first native Americans, even they immigrated from Siberia and Western Asia. The US itself is a country of immigrants. People move around and have moved around for forever pretty much!