It is really embarrassing to read the xenophobic posts on DU,

[TheBlackAdder]

71. Perhaps she doesn't want to assimilate. I work with a dozen M&F former Soviet bloc coworkers.

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When they were here 7-10 years, there was a slight accent. After 15 years, only one or two have a slight one.

There is no excuse for someone who has been here 16 years to stumble so much on the language...

unless she just doesn't want to.


She is the same age as my coworkers, so it isn't being in her forties that's a factor. Being a woman isn't a factor because half of my coworkers are women--and they seem to be able to grasp English faster than the men. They seem to shed their accents first.


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Remember, it's the assimilation to America that has Republicans all up in arms about Native Americans and other immigrants who remain cloistered in hamlets or "refuse to speak the language." Many of my coworkers would hang out in similar groups until they got their bearings with the country, and then they slowly spread their wings and embraced the culture and the language. About half married American born citizens.


This, to a degree, is throwing it back into Republican's faces. Highlighting another double standard.

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