Neil Abercrombie Quotes
There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
Abercrombie, Neil. "Neil Abercrombie." Interview by Matthew Rothschild. The Progressive, vol. 71, no. 9, Progressive Inc., Sept. 2007.
Although Jefferson was a strong immigration enthusiast, he and others were concerned about the ghettoization. The early German immigrants did not universally adopt English, just as today’s immigrants do not all. This was a concern of Americans since the first immigrations. Yet it has always occurred despite concerns about it. However, the second and third generations all become fluent and literate in English.
Commenting in the Senate in 1952 on the use of the cross in Dwight Eisenhower's anti-Communist "crusade" that resulted in the words "under God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance:
The meeting included several Indians, President Grant, and the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indians had been offered $25,000 and land in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in exchange for moving from their traditional lands.
Unlike the United States where there is great toleration for immigrants to retain their old language and culture, there is an expectation in Germany, France and much of the rest of Europe that immigrants when they come to Germany will act like Germans, dress like Germans, speak German, and follow German social customs.
This is a very interesting quotation because it shows that the South American Indians were not only the victims of Spanish colonialism, but before Europeans ever set foot in the New World, expansionism, conquest and colonialism was alive and well. It was just that one Indian people imposed it on others. Note also the techniques of sending colonists to the new colonies to “civilize” the conquered peoples. Although this was common in Western History (even Alexander the Great used it, it was independently created as a colonial technique in the New World. The most extensive use of this technique was used by the Russians as that expanded to the Soviet Union the consequences of which we see in ethnic strife in the Balkans and the Ukraine even into the 21st century. Often these colonists were used as spies as well, in Peru {641657} as in all the Western examples.
This was true in 1936 for almost all Jewish immigrants. Reform Judaism was actually started and developed in the United States to blend the Jewish assimilation to modern America with the philosophy and values of Judaism. Most American Jews gravitated to the Reform communities and synagogues. However starting in the 1950’s there were some ultra-orthodox Jewish groups who began to preach against assimilation. To them, the greatness of America was that they did not have to Assimilate. Like the Amish and a few other religious groups they could maintain their oldest traditions and be protected and tolerated by America. These were and are a minority of Jewish Americans. However in the late 20th century many orthodox and the “Conservative Branch” of Judaism in America began to be concerned that the result of Jewish assail;ration and the reduction of anti-Semitism was an increase in religious intermarriage of American Jews. They worried that the Jewish community will diminish over time to a much smaller minority. So they have instituted programs to limit Jewish assimilation to diminish intern,marriage. The majority of Jews however continue as Goldie Corash Michelson descriptor in 1936.
Neil Abercrombie is an American politician who served as the seventh governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
