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Real Americans don’t like it when the new worldly foreign students come here to attend the best universities and drive Lexus to class. [/quote]
You must not be a real American, then, Brian, as you have recently expressed how much you like the “worldly foreign” women, especially those with advanced degrees who aren’t too Americanized but who speak English beautifully.[/quote]
Nj: That was a good one, and I think it shows that Brian’s Freudian slip is showing a bit.
Americans are, in spite of their faults, some of the most accepting people in the world.
Alexandra Pelosi recently did an excellent documentary about legal immigration and becoming an American citizen. It was nearly impossible to watch it without getting choked up and also without realizing that no one appreciates this country more than those who immigrate here from all over the world.
A good friend of mine, who worked at Intel, was in China a few years back, scouting locations for a proposed Intel chip fab plant. Without fail, nearly every Chinese engineer he met surreptitously slipped my friend their resume/CV. When he pressed one engineer on his reasons for wanting to immigrate to America when everything in China was new and fast and there was so much money to be made, the engineer replied that he wanted to raise more than one child and do so in a place where he wasn’t constantly looking over his shoulder.
For much of the world, we are still that “shining city on a hill”.
