I was in the Chair Force for 30 years, a non-flyer, and I'd like to see my service and me cooked medium well ... and use some imagination. I've already heard all the dull cliches. I can't even play golf, fer Pete's sake -- start there and work your way up to some REAL snark! Come at me, bro! ๐ซก๐บ๐ธ
Japan's strength is homogeneity ... means you're all the same. Guns aren't as necessary, if at all. Once you start importing people from other nations, and the ethnic Japanese population gets smaller and smaller until the outsiders finally outnumber the true native Japanese people, you better pray you have guns and the right to use them, or the alien workforce you imported is going to end you. It's the way of the world.
@AirForceDad50 So true. Never ceases to amaze. If someone hates Jews out of envy, I always point out that Jews went to a lot of trouble to print out an instruction manual that others could follow. It became the best selling book of all time.
I'm afraid that only motion picture professionals know, understand, and admire the beauty and skill of the long take. Once it was pointed out to me, I started noticing. The fact is, to a layman, pasting little bits and pieces of film together so that they look like they represent a continuous scene seems more amazing and magical than just letting the camera roll, even though the opposite is true: small edited takes, easy; long continuous takes, super hard. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
It's a reasonable question, and your phrasing makes the answer pretty clear: if you move to the U.S.A. with the intention of remaining here, you should have basic, functional English language skills at six weeks. You should have basic conversational skills by six months. By that time, there should be few or no situations where you cannot fully account for your actions and decisions to any legal authority. The best option would be to arrive in the U.S. with this level of English language facility. By one year, I would expect language fluency, written and spoken. By two years, I'd expect comprehension and ability to fluently communicate in English to be at around 95% to 99% of the fluency of a native speaker. By three years, I'd expect you to be able to work as an official interpreter for the courts or for the State Department. You should be fully linguistically acculturated and integrated after 36 months living and working in the U.S.A. If an immigrant is coming from Canada or Mexico, I would expect complete fluency on day one. Obviously, these deadlines are all approximations, but this is a clean answer to your hypothetical question.
@Wild_Horse Amen! They've earned their slice of the American apple pie, as far as I'm concerned. They are us. They are U.S. Some have just been tricked into forgetting it. ๐บ๐ธ