@Becassine @AnimeTradCath @LouisConde @Robert_Edwardly @SerfnUSA @SuperLutheran my father was a foreign orthodox convert who worked his ass off every day for three years to learn romanian on top of several demanding jobs.
never got rid of his accent but still speaks it like a book and knows the culture and theology through and through. taught sunday school at my hometown's church for years, in romanian, all the kids loved him
that's who we should be welcoming, a major function of the church is to be a focal point around which an ethnically, linguistically, and ideologically united congregation gathers
there are plenty of american orthodox churches. american converts not interested in shedding their culture for one objectively superior should fuck off to them