Gay marriage story: On my daily drive to middle school with #1 son we were listening to NPR and they were talking about gay marriage. #1 says "blah blah blah, why do they always talk about gay marriage so much?" I take the time to tell him that when I was his age the civil rights movement was in full swing thanks to dedicated activists and ordinary folks that would no longer tolerate the injustice. Continued to talk about the segregated schools, "white's only" signs, etc. that actually exisited in my memory. I explained that he was watching history in progress with the social changes that will take place with gay rights. His priceless response, "so you're saying that when I am your age little kids will be shocked to hear that gay people couldn't get married when I was a kid." Yeah, I think he understood what I was trying to say.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Out of the mouths of babes, Laura. That made me tear up a little bit.
"so you're saying that when I am your age little kids will be shocked to hear that gay people couldn't get married when I was a kid."
This rocks so hard.
Ellis Island, etc., didn't have much quality control over spelling.
This is a widely-held belief that is not entirely accurate. [link]
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This is a widely-held belief that is not entirely accurate.
They certainly screwed up my family name...
I have to differ with the author of [link] . My family name changed (well after the Ellis Island era) on immigration to the States. Can't blame any INS people, though. My Pops could not spell English.
I have to differ with the author of [link] . My family name changed (well after the Ellis Island era) on immigration to the States. Can't blame any INS people, though. My Pops could not spell English.
That's not disagreement; the article is about the unlikelihood of name changes actually deriving from the procedures at Ellis Island.
That's not disagreement; the article is about the unlikelihood of name changes actually deriving from the procedures at Ellis Island.
Too true. Ellis Island procedures from then are not the INS procedures of today. Today, the INS just says "No!", which is much easier to spell.
My family name changed (well after the Ellis Island era) on immigration to the States. Can't blame any INS people, though.
Ditto my family name, and ditto the blamelessness of the INS. We went for decades believing that it had been mangled by an incompetent clerk, but when I asked my grandfather about it (in his nineties at the time, recalling his arrival at Ellis Island at the age of 13 accompanied only by his also-13 best friend), he said cheerfully that he'd shortened the name himself because he wanted something short and jaunty and American (with a possible small side order of he was all on his own, would never see his parents again, and there was nobody around to forbid him from doing exactly whatever the hell he wanted with his name, so there).