[quote=patientrenter]FLU, I greatly favor legal immigration of highly qualified smart people. Why? Because it will probably make me wealthier, and I will have more people to make my good friends. Perhaps because I am conservative, my social circle is dominated by a few nationalities sometimes associated with high educational achievement, high savings, business sense, trustworthiness, loyalty…
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Which is exactly why, I fear the Democratic party…
It’s really a conundrum with me. Because generally I back a more socially liberal party, as Democrats stand for.
But Democrats(in the past) have sided with pro-union, pro-protectionism, etc. And indirectly, in my opinion, they end up fvcking over every legalized immigrant, because they often bring up economic issues in terms of unfair trade, country xyz is stealing jobs,etc, rather than “we as a country need to figure out a way to outsmart everyone else”.
So when a Democratic politiciansays “The chinese are sucking are wealth dry via outsourcing”, most j6p union worker can’t distinguish “chinese”, meaning the country versus chinese (or anyone asian for that matter) who with the exception of a hair color and skin pretty much grew up here. And the Democrat party are much more inclined to make a statement like this.
It will be interesting to see what happens when Obama wins the general election. I’m pretty certain there will be conflict with China in the coming years.
Any chinese american who thinks he’ll be universally accepted when the sh!t really hits the fan with China is fooling himself.
