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’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.