I once did business with a person who mentioned that they preferred this one area of a suburb more than another. The area they didn’t like as much is an area with a very large Indian-American population. The person said of the place “it doesn’t seem as much like America.”
https://twitter.com/thevaluesvoter/status/1455264081879912451
This wasn’t a mean person or a person intending to be mean. But this person probably inadvertently revealed they way a lot of people view demographic changes in this country. That it somehow seems not “like America.”
Whereas the truth is that this country is one long, continual, never ending story of change. People coming from all over the world. Becoming more like us and giving us some of them. That’s the most American thing there ever was.
A few constants in American history:
- Group A comes here.
- Group B comes here. Group A doesn’t like Group B.
- Group C comes here. Group B resents Group C.
- Years later, all their kids form a band and eat “American” food made up from A, B and C.
Jazz at an Irish pub, anyone?
- Group A comes here.
- Group B comes here. Group A doesn’t like Group B.
- Group C comes here. Group B resents Group C.
- Years later, all their kids form a band and eat “American” food made up from A, B and C.
Jazz at an Irish pub, anyone?
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