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I get the not wanting to be sentimental (I did get rid of nearly everything I owned once) but there’s a modicum of things people may want to keep and may regret
by theyregreat 9y ago
I get the not wanting to be sentimental (I did get rid of nearly everything I owned once) but there’s a modicum of things people may want to keep and may regret not keeping: things related to family ancestry, pivotal life events come to mind.
More generally: I still don’t fathom the populist, knee-jerk, sweeping generalizations of castigating and demonizing immigrants and refugees whom the Western countries created, and that often they themselves were once also. If a country becomes predominantly xenophobic, like say China or Japan were long ago, they fall into backwards ways: socially, politically, economically and technologically. It shouldn’t be a political or partisan animosity issue that should be argued over or not discussed at all via the isolation of separation political universes, but a strength of values, integrity, community and collaboration with those whom may build future gigabusinesses elsewhere. Self-interest would welcome intellectuals, engineers, entrepreneurs and others with open arms and facilitate their integration as fast as they would like. Immigration is a form of customer service that signals values and qualities of the country... is our or your OOBE good?
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoThe recent Pew poll on partisan attitudes showed that both Democrats and Republicans had much better views of immigrants than they did in 1994 (they used to be equally skeptical, they diverged but both are well below the previous values).