What in the world is a “new worldly foreign student”? How much wine did you drink while reading this thread? You always act like you know what a real American says, thinks or wants, so why don’t you go ahead and define real American for us, so we do not have to guess. I am kind of tired of your pseudo cosmopolitan persona.
As an American, unknown if I am real or unreal, I welcome skilled immigrants and if they take the best jobs, I have to believe they were the most qualified for the job. It they live here and make money here and spend it here, it only enriches this country. This is a country of immigrants and even the natives had to arrive here from somewhere else long ago. I do not think that real Americans are as full of class envy and xenophobia as you think. Perhaps you are projecting your own feelings on them, then attributing them to real
Americans.
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Touche on that. I was going to respond to the same thing. But you said what I was going to say.
I will add an overlay of recent personal experience. A couple weeks ago I attended my daughter’s white coat ceremony. (First day of medical school.) There were about 120 students. Rough estimate would be about 75 to 85 Asians both by name and appearance. I recognized a few names as Japanese, a few as Viet Namese, the rest I’d only be guessing. I asked my daughter (who is not Asian) how she felt about that. She didn’t understand the question. She said it was like asking how she feels about Thursday following Wednesday. I have no idea how “American” these kids are. I suspect just as “American” as my daughter. I know her two roommates grew up in upstate NY and LA. One is of Japanese descent, and the other from Sri Lanka. Whether their parents were born or have ever lived in the US, I have no idea. I know that like my daughter, they are among the best and the brightest, otherwise they wouldn’t be there. I’m not sure why anyone would have a problem with that.
