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Originally Posted by riethoven
I guess I was thinking of Chinese immigrants who have been here since the 1980s and who have integrated very well into US society. I knew that the Chinese were the defacto slaves of the railroads.
On a parellel note, I remember my Grandmother telling me stories about how my Sicilian great grandfather was treated like crap and considered less than others when he came to the US in 1919.
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Well, but those Chinese paved the way (or laid the tracks, in a manner of speaking) for the Chinese of today!
Sicilians, and Jews and Irish and Germans and everyone who is not a WASP has suffered the slings and arrows of unjust racism (to borrow a phrase from that waspy WASP, Bill Shakespeare).
You integrate into the system and move on and up.
That is why I am angry at some of the most recent Hispanic arrivals. They still wish to maintain their past identity and not integrate into American life. They want the English speaking world to cater to them (i.e., ballots printed in Spanish).
¿Coño, carajo, que mierda es esa?