I had an argument on another message board with an anti-immigrant Trump fanboy...

[Archae]

Told him about a guy I knew who came to the US, never learned English.

Just stayed in areas where people who spoke his language were.

Trump fanboy said he should have been deported like all "Mexicans" should be.

I told the Trump fanboy it was my great-grandfather, emigrated to Milwaukee in 1912, died in 1972.

He only spoke German.

Trump fanboy said I made this up.

Nope, my great-grandfather lived to be 102.
Died here in Sheboygan.

Trump fanboy goes silent, hasn't said anything for a couple days now.

[malaise]

1. Sweet

Rec

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Very. Especially Considering Where Trump's Grandfather Came From

Nope, not Mexico. Germany.

[braddy]

10. Trump's mother came from Scotland.

Trump's paternal grandparents were both German born.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. You got him but good, my dear Archae!

Nicely played!

[Archae]

4. Best part is...

I look very much like my great-grandpa! :-D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. How cool!

That's just the frosting on the damn cake!

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Same thing with a lot of older Jews

who spoke very little english if at all, and stuck to Yddish. These folks are ignorant to the nth degree, but that is why they are dangerous

[Archae]

8. Here in Sheboygan, we have a lot of Hmong immigrants.

Many of them speak Hmong to each other, more often than English.

I wonder what Trump fanboy says about that...

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. That fanboy would be shocked in city heights

yeah, there is spanish, and a lot, lot more. It is like a mini UN I swear

[femmocrat]

7. One of my grandmothers didn't speak English.

My dad had to translate for us.

[Archae]

9. German?

[femmocrat]

11. No, Slovak.

I remember everyone helping her to learn enough English to pass the test to get her citizenship papers (1950s). She came from what is now the Slovak Republic, probably around the same time as your great-grandfather came over. I regret not learning enough Slovak to converse with her. I just know a few words. Do you speak German?

[Archae]

12. Very little.

I can get a little bit of an inkling as to what's being talked about, but it's not easy.

[Jenny_92808]

14. Well done!

My grandfather came from Sweden and did not speak English at the time he came here when he was 15 years old. He learned and became a citizen and over time helped me learn a little Swedish.

[Archae]

15. My maternal grandfather was part Swedish.

Along with Danish, Dutch, and Irish.

My Father's side is German and Russian.

I keep invading myself!

[TreasonousBastard]

16. My stepfather's father was Italian, and never learned much English...

We are, of course, a nation of immigrants but we forget that at times.

I lived for years in Brazilian neighborhood in Elizabeth, NJ. The little bodega (or whatever the Portuguese word is) across the street had all sorts of delicious wonders in it, and the people there were only too happy to explain things to me.

There was a restaurant a couple of blocks away that specialized in extraordinary Brazilian barbecue. When ever I went there, they had to find the English-speaking waitress, but at least the menus were trilingual. It was a lot like those European places with menus in many languages. Every time I took visitors there, they were enthralled by the food and the people.

Go a mile or so up the road to the Ironbound section of Newark and every South American culture had a block or so. Every night seemed like some sort of festival.

Trump and his ilk can kiss my ass. Immigrants are one of the things making this nation great.

[Archae]

17. I agree 110%.

I don't like those who call America a "melting pot," everyone ends up the same.

I prefer to call America a stew, with all the ingredients adding to the flavor without losing their own.

[pansypoo53219]

18. reminds me of reading an excellent old book i discovered- and they say we wouldn't fight.

by floyd gibbons. early embedded reported during WW1. he talks about many of the 'AMERICAN' fighters were IMMIGRANTS from the OLD world FIGHT FOR AMERICA & how many did not speak english. YET WE HELPED WIN THAT WAR. oh that was a good book.

[spanone]

19. K&R...