I guess in most people's mind, it means people like the undocumented girl who just spoke at the DNC. What a great country, even a law-broken person can speak for herself at such a grand stage! How about those law abiding, legal immigrants who are hold H1B visas after they get an advanced STEM degrees and stand in the line for years to get their green cards? Are they simply an invisibvle batch and eventually become a lost course? I guess it's because mentioning them can't get anybody more votes. oh well.
It means anyone can sneak in the country saying I love me some America, now grant me legal status; it also means as long as I can win some more votes, certain promise can be made although it might break such and such laws. The law will not likely be changed, of course. Finally, you are fooled
I'm glad that you hold a similar opinion to yourself. Or were you answering your own question? Please clarify as it may help the rest of us with the discussion.
The first two posts just seem like you are arguing with yourself. As for the question at hand, immigration means entry into a country from the outside with the intent to stay for a significant period of time (ie not a visit).
There you go again. My English is better than yours and I am more American than you are. This kind of sense of superiority My message is clear: prioritize legal immigration rather than illegal immigration. Well, without illegal immigrants, how can our high society suppress wages and keep inflation in check
Immigration means exactly what it means. I have no idea why you think "most" people think immigration means illegals. They're too busy working, saving money and getting a mortgage. What? You think they're out on the streets and rioting for more rights?
What comes to mind when I think of immigration? My mother and her family coming over to this country legally seeking the american utopia on to encounter xenophobia, ethnocentrism and racism.
Sexism could go both ways. Whenever you see an eastern Asian person on ads boards, on tv, the news anchor, it' s a female. Female eastern Asians are well accepted as passive wives, or sex toys for whites. It resembles the situation during war, the winner demolishes the male enemy and their culture, and hold their women as trophy. When an eastern male person appearing on TV or movies on rare occasion, he is usually a robot in the background, or he must be ugly and sneaky, or he must be some imported martial arts star from hong kong. There is no prominent or even positive portrait for them.
Think about how many TV series and Hollywood movies are made every year and how many eastern asian males are represented in a positive light, it's vastly vastly disproportional. Even the image of a regular, normal asian male role is hard to find. You don't have to be a hero to be in a movie. The pop culture and mass media are very suppressive to EAMs indeed. It's pretty funny there are tons of black scientists in movies(it's actually cool), in reality I saw very very few black STEM professors in my school. In contrast Asian professors are everywhere. What an irony.
Well I guess it is clear Born Texan is EAM. Too bad he has near stereotypical lack of sympathy for Mexicans in Texas. You really should not complain about stereotyping with such views. Let me be the first to say it is not fair what is done to EAM's in the media..
You are not. Mexicans are not portrayed any better in mass media. They are usually drug dealers and gangs. Mexicans are at least hard working people, they somehow do not pay enough attention to education, in average.
