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There are those "values" again.....

We have heard our PM Howard speak of the "values" [never defined!] immigrants to Australia must adopt. This "value" thing must be yet another thing Howard has learned from his good and "close" friend George W Bush.

Just read this report, in today, from Yahoo News:

"New arrivals to this country must adopt American values and learn English, President Bush said Wednesday, pushing anew for his proposal to overhaul immigration rules."

"On Wednesday, aware that lawmakers are hearing from constituents alarmed by the added burden immigration sometimes places on police, schools and hospitals, Bush touted the importance of assimilation — immigrants' adoption of American culture".

Seems like it didn't quite work out "right" for George though....as the Yahoo News report goes on:

"The president may have undermined that message somewhat while at the Juan Diego Center, as he joined in a class preparing students for their U.S. citizenship tests. Though the instructor addressed students in English, Bush mostly chose their native Spanish to greet and quiz them. When the students couldn't answer his question — how many father-son duos have served as president — Bush explained in Spanish that there have been two, the Bushes and "Juan Adams y su hijo Juan Q."

Read the complete article here.

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