Comments on: Rice-DeFosse co-authors history of Twin Cities’ Franco-Americans /news/2015/04/16/rice-defosse-co-authors-history-of-twin-cities-franco-americans/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:06:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Roger Clegg, Ctr for Equal Opportunity /news/2015/04/16/rice-defosse-co-authors-history-of-twin-cities-franco-americans/#comment-159084 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:52:15 +0000 /news/?p=93922#comment-159084 Re assimilation: We don’t all have to eat the same foods, and it’s fine to be proud of your ethnic heritage. But we do have to have some things in common for our multiethnic, multiracial society to work.

Here’s my top-ten list of what we should expect from those who want to become Americans (and those who are already Americans, for that matter). The list was first published in a National Review Online column [link: ], and it is fleshed out in Congressional testimony [link: ]:

1. Don’t disparage anyone else’s race or ethnicity.
2. Respect women.
3. Learn to speak English.
4. Be polite.
5. Don’t break the law.
6. Don’t have children out of wedlock.
7. Don’t demand anything because of your race or ethnicity.
8. Don’t view working and studying hard as “acting white.”
9. Don’t hold historical grudges.
10. Be proud of being an American.

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