Funny , I thought Chone Figgins retired from professional baseball immediately after he became a Mariner <| sep |> Speaking of learning from experience . <| sep |> Get Vaan BSB and dive for gun . I got the other gun , da bee . <| sep |> Man , I love everything about Grand Seiko except the double logo . I keep hoping they will move to just the GS logo one day and I ' ll be an instant customer . <| sep |> Okay , I thought it was in manga form but that ' s even better . Thank you . <| sep |> This stat still amazes me . He ' s bad yet somehow avoids piling up INTs , and it ' s not for lack of bad throws . <| sep |> Haha ! You only read like half the shit I wrote , don ' t you ? Many Americans can actually name the person who came here . Their families kept some of the traditions from their old country . The original family that moved , not their children ' s children bullshit like you ' re thinking . 8 generations ? ! That ' s damn near when America became a country ! You realize that America is a country of immigrants , right ? Not everyone who lives here can trace their ancestry back to the original settlers . Most of the population hasn ' t even had family here except for a few generations . Those immigrants from their respective countries often formed communities within their cities , and helped each other out because they had more in common than they did with other immigrants . Not to mention the hostilities they would face from the other people who had been settled in a little longer . When you ' re faced with that kind of shit , you fucking take pride in your heritage . Look at the shit tons of movies , books , college courses , etc . that delve into the conditions for immigrants in America . Look at the Irish , the Polish , the Mexican immigrants , etc . Then you realize that what they put up with when they first arrived wasn ' t even that long ago . You don ' t have to go back that far to see how a community of immigrants could pull together to make it through some gritty shit , and teach their children to take pride in their name and their heritage , despite being know as a derogatory name , such as Mick , Polack , Spick , or Chink . Americans take pride in what their family has done for them , the sacrifices they ' ve made to get them to where they ' re at , and the cultural heritage that allowed them to be part of a community in a new and strange land . How could we ignore that ? How could that not become a vital part of our cultural identity ?