> Because the American government exists to serve Americans. It's not fair and it's not supposed to be. You miss the point that the definition of 'American' is

> Because the American government exists to serve Americans. It's not fair and it's not supposed to be. You miss the point that the definition of 'American' is quite arbitrary. It is 'fair' in the sense that it is a sort of 'Nash equilibrium'. Since around WW2, 'citizenship' has been based on a set of arbitrary norms [1]. You can become an American by just being born here, when your Indian or Chinese parents were visiting New York City for vacation. You can become an American by working here for 20 years, getting a green card, and then becoming naturalized. You could also become an American citizen in other ways. Further, America has a higher bar than Canada, and Switzerland has a higher bar for citizenship than America. There is nothing innately patriotic or 'American' about it. Until 1952, Asians and Asian Indians were barred from citizenship. Until civil rights laws of 1965, immigration was based on quotas[2]. [1] Steven Pinker, 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,' Viking Books, 2011 [2] http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/USMigrat.html http://www.umass.edu/complit/aclanet/USMigrat.html