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USA is a country of Americans so don't act surprised when some Americans think that needs of fellow Americans need to be catered first. That's normal. You can'

USA is a country of Americans so don't act surprised when some Americans think that needs of fellow Americans need to be catered first. That's normal. You can't help others when you, firstly, don't help yourself. Non-American here.

cortesoft 11y ago
I am an American, and love my country and plan on living here my whole life. I want my country to be successful, and I buy into a lot of the values that are quintessentially 'American'. However, I still find it strange to think someone who happens to be born inside the borders of America somehow deserves a job more than someone born outside the borders. It always seems quite arbitrary - I mean, I am also a Californian, but I don't get upset if someone hires a Floridian instead of a Californian. I live in Los Angeles, but I don't get upset if someone hires a person from San Diego.
- guard-of-terra 11y ago
  It's not about who deserves something. It's about obligations. USA (as society and as government) is obliged to care more about Americans' well-being than it is about all other people in the world's well-being. If this stops, you have no society, just government and a bad one at that. Trust somebody who lives in a "state" like that.
  - cortesoft 11y ago
    This assumes that 'the state == society' I guess I think of society as being larger than the state these days. I can interact with, share, befriend, and work with people in another country just as quickly and easily as I can with someone living in the same country (case in point, this conversation here). Our state borders do not define our society.
- xlm1717 11y ago
  City and state borders are very different to national borders.
TallGuyShort 11y ago
Yeah but you mainly hear it from the right, who usually claims they believe in the free market, but then wants special treatment for all their business interests under the law. If you believe in the free market, go ahead and compete with cheap labor elsewhere in the world by specializing. If you don't believe in the free market, stop calling all your political opponents socialists like you think that's a bad thing. (and by you I mean right-wing America, not you)

cortesoft 11y ago

I am an American, and love my country and plan on living here my whole life. I want my country to be successful, and I buy into a lot of the values that are quintessentially 'American'. However, I still find it strange to think someone who happens to be born inside the borders of America somehow deserves a job more than someone born outside the borders. It always seems quite arbitrary - I mean, I am also a Californian, but I don't get upset if someone hires a Floridian instead of a Californian. I live in Los Angeles, but I don't get upset if someone hires a person from San Diego.

guard-of-terra 11y ago
It's not about who deserves something. It's about obligations. USA (as society and as government) is obliged to care more about Americans' well-being than it is about all other people in the world's well-being. If this stops, you have no society, just government and a bad one at that. Trust somebody who lives in a "state" like that.
- cortesoft 11y ago
  This assumes that 'the state == society' I guess I think of society as being larger than the state these days. I can interact with, share, befriend, and work with people in another country just as quickly and easily as I can with someone living in the same country (case in point, this conversation here). Our state borders do not define our society.
xlm1717 11y ago
City and state borders are very different to national borders.

TallGuyShort 11y ago

Yeah but you mainly hear it from the right, who usually claims they believe in the free market, but then wants special treatment for all their business interests under the law. If you believe in the free market, go ahead and compete with cheap labor elsewhere in the world by specializing. If you don't believe in the free market, stop calling all your political opponents socialists like you think that's a bad thing. (and by you I mean right-wing America, not you)