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My world is so much better because of immigrants (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Some for me. So many cultures, languages and cuisines mixing. But in my case even im an immigrant but the plot twist is im european. Overheard someone talking about how bad immigrants are and they proceeded to say "but youre one of the good ones". Only context you need to hear is im white.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Unser Jud' ist eh gut."

    That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.

    Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good to know. It is exactly like this. Ive seen people say things like this while they had 5 friends who were from 5 different countries basically next to them. Its really sad when even some of the immigrants believe this shit.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Many immigrants think they can get on the good side of the xenophobes by becoming the "good" immigrants while putting the "bad" immigrants down.

    The problem with that tactic is that xenophobes and especially xenophobic laws don't distinguish between "good" or "bad".

    If immigrants badmouth other immigrants, the only thing that xenophobes take from that is "even the immigrants think immigrants are bad".

    You see a lot of that happening in the USA, where frequently family members of MAGA voters are taken by ICE, because they aren't going after the "bad" immigrants, but after immigrants, period. Even if their family voted for the people who are now taking them.

    And that's the real take-away. When it comes to lawmaking, you can either be for immigrants or against them. There's no nuance. Because lawmakers don't put any in.

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