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Originally posted by AJC:
.. When you think about it - this country is made up of Europeans, Africans, Chinese, Hispanic, Arabic, etc.... - alot of these people are also now US citizens who vote... and who keep their own cultures / religous beliefs when they move to this country and vote for who they believe in.
thats great and all that there are diverse cultural views. but what really hacks me off - and i will probably get flamed off the board for this - is that people tend to abuse their citizenships. I have generally kept my other Posts lighthearted, but i intend this one to be as serious as some of the other Posts that people have put on this thread.
forign nationals come here (US) from another country, leagly or not, and work hard to become a US citizen. THEN they take all the advantages the have gained from citizenship, (comparatively high income, standard of living, a political voice) and then procede to take whatever actions are in the best interest of their home country or family living abroad.
well, if someone went to all that trouble to become a US citizen, why the frick is some other place coming first in their mind? now, im not an anti-globalist, and i think that only by helping other countries will we live in a productive global economy. when our trade partners benefit, we benefit. its as simple as that. BUT, is it too much to ask for a little patriotism? Could not people put out a little more effort looking for a solution that is beneficial to the US and the world as a whole
as well as their home country? do people have to bad-mouth and poo-poo the US while they leverage the advantages of citizenship to aid their families or homeland? if not patriotism, how about gratitude?
Sure, there are lots of people who come here and dont make it. either they fail to prosper, or they are relegated to 3rd class citizens. Last time I checked, we didn't go about ethnically clensing out our immigrants, so even if they end up working in the labor industry, i dont see how they can complain. if its worse than what they had, they can go back. if they cant go back and its not worth giving up, I dont see where they justify complaining about our way of life.
If someone in a forign country wants to say that the US sucks and their country is better, fine. i dont agree, but good for them. If some one goes out of their way to come here, make our system work for them, and then forks over to another country what should be reinvested here, and bad-mouths us at the same time.. ****, how would you like that to be happening in your country? I bet your laws and culture dont even allow for things like that to happen. (this rhetorical question is not directed to the person quoted above, or anyone inperticular)
The reason that the US is so great is that we have the opportunity for screwed up problems like that to occur, and while I hate that it happens, i would never change our government to disallow it.