Besides all of that valid stuff, immigration is the only reason the US doesn't have slowing/declining population numbers like many developed countries now have.
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Immigrants make a country great. One of the reasons why I'm happy about the increased immigration in the USA, and why I'm sad about the decreased immigration in Canada.
Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.
The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.
Even our language improved. Part of English's power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.
The Normans did fuck things up, though.
As did the vikings. The long term results were generally an improvement however.
The Normans were third generation Viking settlers of France, so the Vikings did have a huge impact on the British isles for a few centuries there.
You can have culinary trends without migrants. Like sushi, the best sushi IMO is still the authentic sushi. Its neat I can get it in my vicinity though.
Street food fusion is a whole other level though. With that you couldn't be more right. Craving late night street snacks now
dont let the fascist whoresons read this, they will frame you mentally deranged and a danger to their homogeneous society
Fuck their homogenous society, its total lack of art, its dog shit food, and its boring everything. Plus its queerphobia and intellectual stasis. Stillness is death. They have guns; they can get that for themselves any time they like.
Plus I'm kind of autistic. People already look too much the same. If they stopped being different colors and sizes with different types of hair i would not be able to go outside.
Some for me. So many cultures, languages and cuisines mixing. But in my case even im an immigrant but the plot twist is im european. Overheard someone talking about how bad immigrants are and they proceeded to say "but youre one of the good ones". Only context you need to hear is im white.
"Unser Jud' ist eh gut."
That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.
Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.
"He's one of the good ones," is how people have always explained liking a minority that they know, while still being prejudiced against the rest of their race.
Good to know. It is exactly like this. Ive seen people say things like this while they had 5 friends who were from 5 different countries basically next to them. Its really sad when even some of the immigrants believe this shit.
Many immigrants think they can get on the good side of the xenophobes by becoming the "good" immigrants while putting the "bad" immigrants down.
The problem with that tactic is that xenophobes and especially xenophobic laws don't distinguish between "good" or "bad".
If immigrants badmouth other immigrants, the only thing that xenophobes take from that is "even the immigrants think immigrants are bad".
You see a lot of that happening in the USA, where frequently family members of MAGA voters are taken by ICE, because they aren't going after the "bad" immigrants, but after immigrants, period. Even if their family voted for the people who are now taking them.
And that's the real take-away. When it comes to lawmaking, you can either be for immigrants or against them. There's no nuance. Because lawmakers don't put any in.
Thanks India for the tutorials
No thanks for the call centers and bad hygiene
But in the end, it allows us to meme and joke on everyone, and that's fantastic (south park mentality)
That makes me think the most exotic thing you ever ate is butter chicken and tikka massala.
Like the call center thing seems to be a bad stereotype (most Indians I have experience with were all very capable). Bad hygiene is a thing though. I love flood from allover India, but I rather get it served by an immigrant in my country, compared to actually getting it served in India. And most Indian restaurants have very passionate chefs who want to share their culture (of place of origin, India is biiiig) and bring the flavor to other parts of the world. Like, I've had dozens of bad food from different countries locally, but Indian food is not on that list. Curry with passion and love as secret ingredients really is the best.
We don't have an Indian streetfood culture here though. You really need to go to a dedicated Indian restaurant.
I actually never really ate indian food and planned on testing soon! I love the taste of curry though
Like the call center thing seems to be a bad stereotype
it's obviously a stereotype, but call centers are often associated with them because a lot of scammers are indian because it's a pretty poor country and they have infrastructure to handle this
I love flood from allover India, but I rather get it served by an immigrant in my country, compared to actually getting it served in India
I would as well, I prefer my country's hygiene norms and laws haha (and afaik their government and institutions are corrupted, as for many other countries, so better not to finance that)
I'll stay away from bollywood though!
Agreed 100%. Unfortunately the people who need to read this are not on Lemmy.
No, I'm pretty racist and needed to read this. /s
Well, by the look of this comment section there’s at least one who really needed to hear the message, but seemingly didn’t take it to heart.
I've seen a few anti-immigrant comments pop up around here that have been upvoted and they've made me pretty sad.
This thread makes my immigrant ass happy though so thank y'all.
How dare you not pledge your undying allegiance to the spot of dirt that you were born on!??!?!?
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Reminds me of this for some reason
I dunno, the left path looks far easier because it's far less uphill
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I'm from the bike/pedestrian-friendly community of /fuckcars. It's a far whiter immigrant mentality, but I imagine trends like that wouldn't have occurred if not for Dutch immigrants; or even American immigrants visiting the Netherlands, most specifically the Not Just Bikes channel.
I immigrated to the US when I was too young to make that decision myself. Now I'm immigrating to another country. I literally don't know what it's like to not be an immigrant, and I'm tired of receiving nothing but hate for it. At least my new city is more welcoming.
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