Yes, I have a problem with assimilation. Because 'assimilation' doesn't mean what your whole paragraph just said. You obviously did not give up your rights to have an identity other than Swiss, and your native culture is in no way threatened by extinction. You also didn't answer the actual questions.
English isn't the official language of the US. In part, presumably, because quite a large part of it is still legally, contractually meant to be Spanish-speaking. Given those options, a "Hispanic identity" might well be just as American as yours. So who are we kicking out?
Besides that is the fact that the US is a very heterogenous country, and anything you call "American culture" could easily be disputed by another white, middle-class male (making wild assumptions here) in another, not-too-distant part of the country, to say nothing of somebody of a different color and creed.
Agreeing with you, sorry for being unclear. Selective isolationism by subjective means, perhaps? Couchslug's (apparent) definition of "lesser varieties" of English as being those who speak it differently from him, and by extension Americans (by further subjective reasoning).
This. And people speaking "proper English" in other English-speaking countries (say, ENGLAND) might have a hard time understanding our "lesser varieties." Way to use subjective isolationism as a basis for bigotry, eh?
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Yes, I have a problem with assimilation. Because 'assimilation' doesn't mean what your whole paragraph just said. You obviously did not give up your rights to have an identity other than Swiss, and your native culture is in no way threatened by extinction. You also didn't answer the actual questions. English isn't the official language of the US. In part, presumably, because quite a large part of it is still legally, contractually meant to be Spanish-speaking. Given those options, a "Hispanic identity" might well be just as American as yours. So who are we kicking out? Besides that is the fact that the US is a very heterogenous country, and anything you call "American culture" could easily be disputed by another white, middle-class male (making wild assumptions here) in another, not-too-distant part of the country, to say nothing of somebody of a different color and creed.
Agreeing with you, sorry for being unclear. Selective isolationism by subjective means, perhaps? Couchslug's (apparent) definition of "lesser varieties" of English as being those who speak it differently from him, and by extension Americans (by further subjective reasoning).
This. And people speaking "proper English" in other English-speaking countries (say, ENGLAND) might have a hard time understanding our "lesser varieties." Way to use subjective isolationism as a basis for bigotry, eh?