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.
A neighbor told me that all foreigners should be deported from Germany.
She clarified (after I asked) that when someone is born in Germany to parents who immigrated legally, never visited their parents’ home country, only spoke German, and had a job here, they’re still a foreigner and should be deported.
She was born in Romania and had immigrated 5 years ago.
I have a migrant co-worker who shared his opinion that migrants should be deported back to their home countries.
I don’t want him to explain.
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.
No shit. People be dumb.
The mind boggles, my co-worker is always going on about foreigners coming over here and taking British peoples jobs,…he’s polish
I feel sorry for your neighbor.
The abused perpetuate abuse is the likely story here.