Thinking about a conversation I was having with an acquaintance years ago. He was a friend of a friend and we were talking about food. I forget the exact phrasing but I brought up loving avocados. He said “what’s that?” I was a bit surprised and explained. He responded “OH thats crazy I thought that was one of those made up words”. The statement was like a flashbang I had to contemplate for a few minutes. PERSONAL STORIES ONLY, DO NOT INCLUDE A STATEMENT FROM A CELEBRITY OR POLITICIAN.
i have had similar arguments, in the US. I welcome immigration. One of my grandfathers was famous for fighting the western expansion and our tribe is famous for being the only people to make the US Army sign a declaration of defeat but the killings of people on the Oregon trail was our failure. People with purpose will always move and fighting it is welcoming disaster. finding ways to coexist is what we should be focusing on. Trying to relieve suffering is what should be our end goal.
so when people tell me or other native Americans, we should go back to my country. We can’t, it’s gone. the rez isn’t a country. it’s a small safety net to hold off the erasure of our culture. there’s just the US now and we have to make it more welcoming for those that need to find a place.
only death and suffering will come from closed borders and isolation. stagnant culture and ignorance. hatred of the outsiders. it’s just a losing battle and the Lakota won their fight but they lost the battle because they didn’t understand the numbers of people who were willing to brave the risks of immigration
I’ve never understood the anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. Except for the indigenous, everyone is a product of immigration.
Not just that, but think about how boring life would be if all we had was the white bread world that MAGA imagines. No more interesting food, music, dance, literature, etc., but also science and medicine, and also basic manual labor. And that’s besides the fact that it’s more interesting to share a beer with a neighbor friend who hasn’t had the exact same life experiences as me.
Immigrants add color to our lives, and for some reason that scares the shit out of some people.
No shit. People be dumb.
I suppose it depends on if you count colonization as immigration, but the cutoff there gets murky anyways.