DGS49
Diamond Member
Many legal immigrants coming to America are coming from societies where regardless of how hard you work, or how talented you are, your life trajectory is pretty much fixed by your place of birth, ethnicity, religion, or some other uncontrollable factor.
When they come to America they see countless examples of people who have achieved great success even though their families had no money, held no positions, or had no political leverage. It's like going into a candy store where all the candy on the top floor is free; all you have to do is to climb those flights of stairs to get it - and most people are just too lazy to do that.
When you tell such people that you can be a doctor, a lawyer, a business executive, a business owner, or pretty much anything you want to be, if you are just willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve what you want, they see that as a tremendous benefit. And it's something that Americans overlook, simply because we are too accustomed to seeing it.
And that's why there are so many first-generation Americans who are doctors and successful business owners.
But thanks to the late Ted Kennedy and his self-destructive immigration law, most current immigrants are just here to either collect government goodies, or to work at menial jobs that "Americans won't do." We won't see many of their kids growing up to be doctors.
Pity.
When they come to America they see countless examples of people who have achieved great success even though their families had no money, held no positions, or had no political leverage. It's like going into a candy store where all the candy on the top floor is free; all you have to do is to climb those flights of stairs to get it - and most people are just too lazy to do that.
When you tell such people that you can be a doctor, a lawyer, a business executive, a business owner, or pretty much anything you want to be, if you are just willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve what you want, they see that as a tremendous benefit. And it's something that Americans overlook, simply because we are too accustomed to seeing it.
And that's why there are so many first-generation Americans who are doctors and successful business owners.
But thanks to the late Ted Kennedy and his self-destructive immigration law, most current immigrants are just here to either collect government goodies, or to work at menial jobs that "Americans won't do." We won't see many of their kids growing up to be doctors.
Pity.
