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Out-of-Touch Liberals Hate Biden’s Immigration Quota
But newly-arrived immigrants love it — time to rethink, folks, and get a clue.
Remember how in Toy Story, whenever a new toy joined the gang, all kinds of hell broke loose: jealousies, insecurities, fights, and just an overall nerve-wracking pall settled in like unpleasant dust? There are a lot of similarities between the group dynamics of those toys and immigrants today.
(Before any of you fall off your high horses and rage at me, please know that I am not comparing immigrants to toys.)
Let me try to explain what I mean as an immigrant. For 28 years, I lived in Russia. I was a foreigner and treated like a newly arrived immigrant by the vast majority of Russians who saw me each day. Despite speaking nearly flawless Russian, I was always “not one of them.” This is how it was for all ex-pats. Those of us who resided there for ten or more years eventually established lives that were interwoven into the fabric of modern Russian society. Some ex-pats, even a few who lived there for more than 20, never assimilated, but most of us did our best to blend in. I was fortunate enough to have worked only in Russian companies whose brands became, or were already, nationally popular, so I was “one of them but still a foreigner.”