DO NOW: The following selections are from the Thoughts of Chairman Mao. For many years, Chinese
peasants and workers learned to read by studying the "Little Red Book," the name given to Mao's sayings by
westerners. Read the selections carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery it cannot
be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so.. kind, courteous, restrained, and generous. A revolution is an
insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery it cannot  be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so.. kind, courteous, restrained, and generous. A revolution is an  insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse Tung was a Chinese statesman, he was born in the city of Hunan in 1893, he was born into a family of rural workers. Where his childhood lived, school education was only considered useful to the extent that it could be applied to tasks such as taking records and others proper to agricultural production. Therefore, Mao Tse Tung abandoned his studies at the age of thirteen to devote himself entirely to work on the family farm.

since most of current immigration into the u.s., both legal and illegal, is coming from latin america. it would be very difficult to imagine or rationalize a country my fellow citizens are trying desperately to flee into, would pose a threat to my prosperity or freedom. since the u.s. has a long history of intervention, but no record of permanent occupation, i would not feel oppression is the main objective.  

the largest free trade nation, along with the largest gdp in the world wanting to expand it's economic policy on us, and including us, could only be positive. the u.s. government has no interest in, or way of simply forcing american culture on us. and has no track record of it. other nations that adopted american social culture, or "americanization" did so voluntarily, mainly through the choice of allowing american businesses and u.s. citizens to come into their nations, as free operatives.