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#1 Apr 26 2006 at 9:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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A plan to enlist Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, reggaeton star Tito El Bambino and other Latin musicians to record a Spanish-language pop version of "The Star Spangled Banner" is being touted by organizers as a way immigrants can show their devotion to their new country.

But like most every aspect of the immigration debate, the symbolism is in the ear of the beholder. The idea of the nation's anthem in a foreign tongue is beginning to elicit a chorus of dissonant voices.

In coming days, producers plan to send the single to Spanish-language radio stations in Chicago and nationwide. The proceeds from "Nuestro Himno," or "Our Anthem," will benefit groups organizing massive marches nationwide in support of legalizing illegal immigrants.

By embracing a song that symbolizes American values, immigrants hope to reinforce the message that their desire is to be part of this country, regardless of legal status.
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But conservative columnists and groups that oppose illegal immigration say the song is a symbolic false note. For them, the project symbolizes a frightening prospect: that Hispanic immigrants do not want to assimilate but want to remake America on their terms.
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The single will be part of an album called "Somos Americanos," or "We Are Americans." The album likely won't be released until next month, but the backlash over the song has already started.

Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, in decrying the project, wrote: "Whose anthem, whose flag, whose country is it anyway?" Listeners of conservative radio shows and groups that oppose illegal immigration have seized on the issue, too, and let the studio know.
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Feelings of patriotism aside, the Star-Spangled Banner is an atrocious song that few people really know (even just the first verse) and even fewer can sing since the music to it is God awful as well. I say let the Spanish speaking folks have at it!
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#2 Apr 26 2006 at 9:09 AM Rating: Good
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I'm amused that the tune that it is sung to was a drinking song.


Other than that I am appalled at this imposement of propaganda on these individuals. Let them live thier lives instead of exploiting their heritage for political gain.

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#3 Apr 26 2006 at 9:11 AM Rating: Good
Typical liberal.
#4 Apr 26 2006 at 9:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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Who's being exploited? I'm pretty sure the folks singing on the album know full well what the idea is.
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#5 Apr 26 2006 at 9:15 AM Rating: Good
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Who's being exploited? I'm pretty sure the folks singing on the album know full well what the idea is.


I'm sure the people singing on the album are getting their pretty pesos because of it.

The thing that's being exploited is the Song itself; as a tool to try to goad people into some false sense of nationalism.

Same thing with the pledge of allegiance in schools..... not for education.. but rather for patriotic brain-washing.


yes I'm being extreme. It's fun.
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#6 Apr 26 2006 at 9:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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Extremely confusing Smiley: laugh
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#7 Apr 26 2006 at 9:17 AM Rating: Good
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Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, in decrying the project, wrote: "Whose anthem, whose flag, whose country is it anyway?"

I'd like to see what Native Americans have to say to her.


#8 Apr 26 2006 at 9:18 AM Rating: Good
I believe that many other National Anthems for other countries are available in multiple languages. I know I have seen the Canadian anthem in at least 4 languages personally, as well as the anthems for Korea and Japan in English. I have also seen English translations of others, but they elude me at the moment.

What is so bad about it anyway? In Canada, most professionals who sing the anthem decide to change languages right in the middle of the damn song, let along just picking one language and running with it.

Puritians. The bunch of ya!
#9 Apr 26 2006 at 9:18 AM Rating: Good
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I'd like to see what Native Americans have to say to her.

you mean the conquered people who now extract their revenge one one-armed-bandit pull at a time?
#10 Apr 26 2006 at 9:19 AM Rating: Good
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Also, this is the same kind of idiocy that leads to people calling anti-establishment acts as "unpatriotic," without realizing that the original Patriots (capital P) were the very embodiment of anti-establishment.


#11 Apr 26 2006 at 9:19 AM Rating: Good
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Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, in decrying the project, wrote: "Whose anthem, whose flag, whose country is it anyway?"

I'd like to see what Native Americans have to say to her.
Everybody knows the US is full of arrogant, ignorant bastards. You just have to watch the news to see it. It's too bad many of the residents of that country can't see the forest for the trees.
#12 Apr 26 2006 at 9:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, at least the United States had the good taste not to steal any Cherokee songs when taking over their land!
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#13 Apr 26 2006 at 9:20 AM Rating: Good
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I'd like to see what Native Americans have to say to her.

you mean the conquered people who now extract their revenge one one-armed-bandit pull at a time?

Not their fault white man has no discipline.


#14 Apr 26 2006 at 9:22 AM Rating: Good
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Not their fault white man has no discipline.

Perhaps, but it is their fault they sold manhattan for a box of beads or $20 or whatever the hell it was. It was the American equivalent of mujahadin with flintlock rifles fighting soviet tanks. Fortunately for us the Indians really sucked with their sticks and the invention of the gatling gun made short work of the breeding stock.
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trickybeck wrote:
the original Patriots (capital P) were the very embodiment of anti-establishment.
That's why the Bears walked all over them in '85.
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#16 Apr 26 2006 at 9:22 AM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
Well, at least the United States had the good taste not to steal any Cherokee songs when taking over their land!


I don't think many white Americans would pronounce "Uhh-ah-Uaah Hey-a-woaah".





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Extremely confusing Smiley: laugh


3 hours sleep.. it's it's own brand of entertainment.. on both our ends I'm sure

Edited, Wed Apr 26 10:24:26 2006 by Kelvyquayo
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#17 Apr 26 2006 at 9:22 AM Rating: Good
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Well, at least the United States had the good taste not to steal any Cherokee songs when taking over their land!
It was the early version of a "tribute band".
#18 Apr 26 2006 at 9:24 AM Rating: Good
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Once again I nominate this for a new smiley:

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#19 Apr 26 2006 at 9:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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Does it come in Spanish?
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#20 Apr 26 2006 at 9:26 AM Rating: Good
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El periódico en Chicago wrote:
A plan to enlist Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, reggaeton star Tito El Bambino and other Latin musicians to record a Spanish-language pop version of "The Star Spangled Banner" is being touted by organizers as a way immigrants can show their devotion to their new country.



Jesus, no. Smiley: banghead
#21 Apr 26 2006 at 9:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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I don't want to see any Titos on this album unless it's Tito Puente!

And he's dead. Smiley: frown
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#22 Apr 26 2006 at 9:28 AM Rating: Good
Jophiel wrote:
Does it come in Spanish?
Why do you hate the old Red, Brown and Blue?
#23 Apr 26 2006 at 9:28 AM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
Does it come in Spanish?

http://www.aztlan.net/burnmexflag.jpg

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Why must republicans be spit on the ideals this great country was founded upon?


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#25 Apr 26 2006 at 9:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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There's an eagle on that flag! Anyone who'd burn an eagle-flag hates America Smiley: frown
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#26 Apr 26 2006 at 9:31 AM Rating: Good
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THIS is how Mexico should propagandize itself.


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