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kpete

(72,018 posts) Thu Aug 3, 2017, 12:25 PM Aug 2017

'My immigrant grandparents couldn't read or write. I have a PhD. That's America'

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My "low-skilled" mom picked cotton as a kid and cleaned houses for nearly 30 yrs. I challenge you to do a month of either

When I was a little boy, I kept the fact that my mom worked as a housekeeper from my friends. I was so afraid of being labeled “the poor Mexican kid”. It seemed like the kids at my grade school all lived in big houses and had parents who worked in nice offices. My mom worked cleaning them.

It took growing up for me to finally understand the meaning of the word “dignity”. My mother’s work has never been insignificant to her. It allowed her to support her family and kept her independent after leaving an emotionally abusive husband. Most importantly, she was happy. So why should it have ever been insignificant to me?

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'My immigrant grandparents couldn't read or write. I have a PhD. That's America' (Original Post) kpete Aug 2017 OP

My mother arrived in New York in 1961 Adrahil Aug 2017 #1

Mothers have always earned their independence through hard work. Not hedge funds or lindysalsagal Aug 2017 #2

My grandmother was born here but didn't learn English until she went to school Motley13 Aug 2017 #3

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)

1. My mother arrived in New York in 1961

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Aug 3, 2017, 12:28 PM

Aug 2017

She spoke a little English and she worked as a housekeeper for a year before getting a job as a clerk at Blue Cross-Blue Shield.

I was the first on either my Dad's or my Mom's side to graduate from college.

I doubt she would qualify for immigration under the new proposed Trump/GOP plan.

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)

2. Mothers have always earned their independence through hard work. Not hedge funds or

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Thu Aug 3, 2017, 12:31 PM

Aug 2017

Investment schemes or corporate liquidations. They tirelessly work their fingers to the bone for their families. Immigrants are not the freeloaders: corporations that don't pay taxes, or livable wages are freeloaders.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)

3. My grandmother was born here but didn't learn English until she went to school

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Thu Aug 3, 2017, 12:43 PM

Aug 2017

she lived in an immigrant Danish community & her parents couldn't speak English.

LOSER 45 hardly speaks English

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