This kind of history is what strikes me as so absurd about anti-immigrant rhetoric about "doing things the right way." If the ancestors of wide swathes of the A

This kind of history is what strikes me as so absurd about anti-immigrant rhetoric about "doing things the right way." If the ancestors of wide swathes of the American populations were judged by modern standards, they would have been turned away. Instead, their great-great-grandparents solved a jigsaw puzzle and had someone size them up to see if they "looked like they had TB" before they were let in the door. Their entitlement to some kind of imagined cultural patrimony is such an obvious historical fiction.