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Unless you walked through Alaska on a land bridge, you too are an immigrant. We can either embrace the strength of a democracy to turn the huddled masses into a
by johnnyg 13y ago
Unless you walked through Alaska on a land bridge, you too are an immigrant. We can either embrace the strength of a democracy to turn the huddled masses into a productive force for good or we can choose to turn inward. Guided by fear, we are making the wrong choice.
- gilgoomesh 13y ago> Unless you walked through Alaska on a land bridge, you too are an immigrant. Uh... isn't that also immigration?
- CaveTech 13y agoIn this instance, it would be migration not immigration.
- morganwilde 13y agoTo extend this line of thinking - you are (possibly) not an immigrant only if you were born in Africa - our place of origin.
- astrodust 13y agoEven "origin" is a misnomer here. It's not clear if the neanderthals were wiped out, or simply assimilated. Many were already living in modern-day Europe.
- nitid_name 13y agoPerhaps the OP is implying that without previous population, the first peoples of the Americas were settlers, not colonizers or immigrants.
- Thrymr 13y ago"Immigrant" does not mean "descended from someone who came here". Some people were actually born here. Yes, we are all descended from immigrants (some of us from those who walked from Asia), but that doesn't make us and our children's children "immigrants" as well.
- escaped_hn 13y ago"but that doesn't make us and our children's children "immigrants" as well." In other words: Fuck You, Got Mine.