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I also feel this narrative has a strange tone about praising the caucasians of being "rooted into the city and were an integral part of the community", and soft
by analyst74 8y ago
I also feel this narrative has a strange tone about praising the caucasians of being "rooted into the city and were an integral part of the community", and softly blaming the immigrants for lagging behind in community development.
I mean, isn't it normal that the immigrants do not have influential grandparents running town-hall meetings in the city they immigrated to?
- m_fayer 8y agoThis immigrant didn't hear that overtone. What I heard instead was the chagrin of recognition. It's not only a lack of influential grandparents, but also the attenuation of communal bonds and instincts that comes with being poor, aggressively upwardly mobile, and originating from a traumatised and turbulent society.
- taysic 8y agoTrue, my parents are I were the only in our family to move to the US but we still had pictures of ourselves on the wall. Hehe.
- spyckie2 8y agoNot praise, just a noticable difference in investment. If you are climbing out of poverty you focus on yourself and your family rather than integrating yourself in your community. For example, representing your school by being on a sports team is not something Asian families promote.