Sorry to start this new conversation as thesedays any conversation is drowned by useless noise not related to the topic. I found your response very thoughtful and I like your style of responding. It resonates with my own thought processes. That's why I created this thread to chronical our conversation.
Ehho2 said:
"I took my kids to swimming yesterday. An older gentleman in his late 60s and an younger parent were chatting about migrant issues in Nyc. I happened to sit next to them since there was a seat available and to that they looked at me and we had an ajeard eye contact, and stopped talking about it. I have a feeling we are up for things like this a lot for another decade now. The micro aggressions and sublte micro discriminations do add up for the victims."
I said:
"Ehho you have serious victim mentality. Being American is not just about paper. Look at Vivek Ramaswami. He is as indian as can be. Look at Nikki Haley. They are indian but running for the President of United states.
If you have the confidence of being an American then you are an American. Otherwise you are an immigrant. It all depends on your attitude. You can be a confident immigrant who fit in the america who can talk about illegal immigration without feeling victimized. Or you can be a common victim mentality immigrant who is in the US for the sole reason of taking advantage of how much money you can make by hook or crook and your whole life is defined with that fact alone."
You said:
"Independent, i agree with what you just said above and appreciate that too for the most part. However here is the serious problem with you and people like you; being racist and blaming the other party for the victim mentality.
How quick and convenient it was for you to shift the whole blame on me and at the same time label me weak and fragile , all that too while working on your agenda of showing Vivek or any republican the ideal person. What a fine art of bsing and shifting the blame on the victim, wow.
All i was doing there was simply existing and thats all. But i guess it's too much for people like you and the people of your choice. You would rather have and my likes in gas chamber and make this world vanilla?
Im a legal citizen and would've have stood up for my rights handled them properly if that was needed. Keep your assumptions to yourself. See Independent, people like you think you have fully assimilated cuz you have picked up the accent and knowledge about pop cultute and think your skin has turned lighter until one day god forbids some racist mofo spits at your parents or calls you sandnword. Then u will have no choice but to have a rude awakening that all this time u were were still a foreigner in their eyes.
I have friends who are 4th or 5th generation Asians and even then get asked where are you from as if they came from somewhere. I very well know the struggle of kids like you , growing up in american school systems where whites and black kids are celebrated and you were considered some curry kid and immirgrant, thou u were born here. Funny how the law of attraction works, you probalby hated the experience so much but the constant thinking of it made u one of them. It's funny and sad at thebsame time. I am so sorry for your loss."