Originally Posted by butterflywing

i agree. my own background is polish, russian, canadien and spanish. all here legally. all learned english as their second language. my first language until i was 4.5 was not english, until i went to school. my own family needed help when they got here, but soon helped themselves. all became citizens, except for my mother, who lost the respect of all her family for it. i've heard jokes about those kinds of people all my life and they are funny. like you, i know who i am and where i belong.