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For what it’s worth America is one of the easiest if not the easiest place to be an immigrant, all things considered. You’ll find a community of your fellow cou
by ipnon 3y ago
For what it’s worth America is one of the easiest if not the easiest place to be an immigrant, all things considered. You’ll find a community of your fellow countrymen already thriving, you have well established rights that are maintained by the rule of law, and so long as you try to fit in and work hard nobody will pay much mind. Many if not most digital nomads are Americans traveling from an open minded heterogeneous society to a more conservative and homogeneous one. No matter what you call it you’re leaving a society that is relatively pro immigration behind for a society that is very likely less inviting of foreigners!
I hope the recent wave of digital nomads makes the world a more open and inviting place but there will be growing pains. America has been the land of immigrants for centuries now and we still have blowback. Imagine going to some rural village or regional capital, making 10x more than all the locals while sitting at a hotel on your laptop, and expecting them to roll out the red carpet! Be respectful, be optimistic, and welcome to the life of an immigrant.
- witchesindublin 3y agoYou represent what the problem with Americans tend to be. You assume that your culture and philosophy is the best, and then start to hate how all the locals hate you and blame it on their culture. Southern Europe and much of Asia has had inter-ethnic/inter-racial immigration for thousands of years and have developed their own ways of how ethnic groups live side by side and integrate/merge together.
- pxc 3y agoWhere can I read about this, about other sorts modes of integration?
- witchesindublin 3y agoRead up on the history of immigration to Europe, Africa and Asia. You act as if the US is the only place where immigration has ever happened.
- pxc 3y agoI was wondering if you recommended any specific texts or resources.
- witchesindublin 3y agohttps://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/immigration-diversity-inclusion-strategic-national-security-assets-antiquity-through-today https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/immigration-diversity-...
- pxc 3y agoThanks!
- em-bee 3y agoparent comment didn't say that it's the best, but it's obviously the easiest for the modern digital nomad. in most other places integration probably happened over timespans of several centuries. check the history of germans outside of germany. they lived in places for centuries and never integrated at all, but kept to themselves, except in the US. in asia today foreigners are not expected to integrate at all. nor in africa. they will always stand out, and yes, maybe through intermarrying in a few centuries some will have integrated. but there is no place like the US where you can effectively integrate from day one if you have an open mind. i have lived in all these places so i speak from my own experience.
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- ilyt 3y agoWell, and the fact near-everyone in US speaks english. Ability to communicate is kinda a key thing.