How dare you not pledge your undying allegiance to the spot of dirt that you were born on!??!?!?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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What's it called when you live on the right side and agree with the labels?
Woke. I think.
Ah, the original, unironic meaning, now largely extinct through misuse.
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Exactly don't people understand these foreigners steal our jobs, while at the same time they are all lazy and live on welfare?
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Agreed 100%. Unfortunately the people who need to read this are not on Lemmy.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
The irony is most Americans are descendants of immigrants.
"You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."
What a godless country.
Reminds me of this for some reason
That is pretty on the nose, but still an interesting perspective.
It might be on the nose, but we sure as hell have regressed in my short lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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Completely agree! The concept of Culinary Diplomacy is actually practiced by a few countries around the world and is often implemented in partnership with emigrants from those nations. South Korea did this with their “Kimchi Diplomacy” back in 2009 and it was considered very successful. It is one of the reasons Korean food became so popular here in the U.S. around then. Culinary Diplomacy
I think the Chinese government also supported the Chinese restraunt industry similarly in the US
I think Chinese food spread was more organic, they helped each other immigrate, shared recipes, and acted almost like a franchise in how new restaurants were chosen in unserved areas and given a general playbook
And then the Thai government did it more formally, Korean culinary movement copied the success (or maybe the other way around)
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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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The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.
I don't think that logically follows.
Music genres that came out of poor black sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta could have just as easily come from middle class black manufacturing workers in Congo or Nigeria, if the continent had been integrated with the industrial west back in the 19th century rather than raided and plundered for 400 years.
Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah's dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren't cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.
The Peace Dividend reaped across the Gulf Coast and the Mountain West that gave us modern western music could have been collected anywhere.
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The problem is when immigrants from countries with lower labour standards and poorer conditions are effectively used as "scabs", to suppress wage growth and unionization. And I fear the capitalists who benefit from this are pushing the "you just hate immigrants" narrative to protect it.
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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.
Fun fact for you: All döner is kebab, but not all kebab is döner. Because döner is just a type of kebab (grilled meat on a stick). Which also means that shawarma's status as kebab is questionable, as it's ~~usually~~ sometimes roasted or pan fried, as far as I know.
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It didn't take long before they started deporting anyone and everyone. By no means just violent criminals. Horse shit.
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great point, and many countries would be literally poorer as well.
even undocumented immigrants pay about $100 billion in taxes to the US each year.
I loath people that claim immigrants aren't paying taxes and just taking free money. If they have an official job, they're paying taxes and every time they make a purchase, taxes are paid, just like everyone else that's not rich.
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America would be a boring ass country if it was just white America. I have been saying this
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