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Should I apologize in advanced for immigrating to the US next year?

• diogenescynic 15y ago
  Please don't. We're all immigrants here (other than the Native Americans). People have a selective memory.
• pyre 15y ago
  paulpaul12 is having trouble splitting apart the ideas of: 1) cultural change due to changing minority/majority statistics 2) illegal immigration His/her opinions seem to be largely based on the idea that idea #1 is undesirable, and that idea #2 is what is causing that, therefore idea #2 is 'bad.' The fault in this argument is that idea #1 can come about through other means, such as legal immigration, and applying the same logic would result in the conclusion that legal immigration is bad, which would be a far less popular idea (even amongst the 'kill the illegals' crowd). The underlying theme here, though is resistance to change.
  • Steko 15y ago
    He also has trouble separating both (1) and (2) from: (3) the Great Recession and possibly his own troubles To me it just seems like classic "they took our jerbs" style scapegoating.
    • pyre 15y ago
      > it will be years before they have buying power > as a population to help our economy. This isn't necessarily referring to the recession. I would just give the benefit of the doubt.