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I grew up in Malta (Europe), and while I am proud of where I came from, this is the flag that’s hanging on my wall. 🇺🇸
This is the greatest country in the world; and it’s up to us to make it even better 🚀
This is the greatest country in the world; and it’s up to us to make it even better 🚀
NEW IN PIRATE WIRES: American immigrants don’t assimilate anymore. They don’t even think they should — because America stopped asking them to.
This is a problem. Look around.
In June, illegal immigrants waved Mexican flags over burning cars. A Minneapolis mayoral hopeful calls Somalia “our home.” An Illinois congresswoman declares “I am a proud Guatemalan before I am American,” and Dearborn Heights, MI, just unveiled an Arabic police patch (before walking it back).
This country doesn’t work without assimilation. Integration isn’t optional — it’s the entire premise of America. Forget it, and we stop being a nation at all. You could argue we’re already there.
The left thinks there’s nothing to assimilate into, that this country is little more than stolen land papered over with oppression, and “American values” are defined only by our sins — slavery, segregation, injustice. The right has its own issues. There, a growing faction thinks what makes you American is whiteness and birthplace. Both are wrong.
When you step onto American soil, you’re being offered a rare ticket. America offers you the freedom to be anyone, to do anything, to compete in the top percentile of the world.
That gift carries a debt. You owe her something in return. You owe her assimilation.
@_sagnikbasu, who immigrated to America a decade ago, unpacks what assimilation means (and doesn’t), and why we need to get back to actually doing it. Read the full story 👇View quoted post on X
