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This is exactly the mentality that makes many Americans so paranoid about immigrants.
by Qz 17y ago
This is exactly the mentality that makes many Americans so paranoid about immigrants.
- iamdave 17y agoI understand your point, but I'm not worried about an illegal immigrant taking my Sys Admin job. And that's the general argument that I try to support. "They're taking our jobs" Correction, they're taking the jobs Americans are often too lazy or too elitist to apply for, when out of work. Manual labor isn't beneath anyone, present company included-but statements along the lines of immigrants taking jobs seems to indicate that's how people really think.
- gcb 17y agoin california i hardly see any american. Be it in the streets, in the bars, in the fortune 500 offices... My guess is that the entire state is a piramid scheme for immigrants
- nostrademons 17y agoMany of the people you assume are foreigners were probably born and/or raised in this country. A bunch of them probably had parents that were born or raised in this country. Don't confuse ethnicity with citizenship.
- _delirium 17y agoIt's not that unlikely that a randomly chosen person you see in California actually will be foreign-born, though, since about 1 in 4 people in the state were born outside the country.
- nostrademons 17y agoThere's a big difference between "hardly see any" and "75%".
- gcb 17y agoi may not be distributed accros the state like the statistic :)
- gcb 17y agoi'm not confusing. I'm using it in the same meaning it was thrown into the previous discussion. I would pass as a "local" by ethnics preconcept standards btw. Even though i'm around for much less time then the others that get the full "immigrant treatment".
- Qz 17y agoI mean, I think it's a crazy mentality seeing as most of the people who think it have parents or relatives who were immigrants (and we're almost all immigrants if you go back far enough).