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> When you've recently immigrated to the US from a foreign country, you don't think "finally, I'm away from my countrymen, I can't wait to form a work group of
by rdtsc 3y ago
> When you've recently immigrated to the US from a foreign country, you don't think "finally, I'm away from my countrymen, I can't wait to form a work group of zero people who speak my language and don't understand any of my assumptions and references."
Some people have been hurt or persecuted by their "countrymen" and they'd rather put on a cowboy hat and go have a bbq and a beer than continue hanging out with their countrymen. The issue is you won't see them, because they won't live or hang out in a segregated *-town communities. You may find them in an average home, in some average town, going to average grocery stores and so on.
- FredPret 3y agoNot sure why you're downvoted. Both phenomena (*-town immigrants and cowboy-hat immigrants) happen all the time. I'm an immigrant in the latter camp, though I moved to Canada, not the USA.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoRight, anecdotally first generation middle class mexicans are extremely patriotic. Sometimes even to the extreme (maga and all that).