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IronLionZion

(45,450 posts)
1. There are educated liberal DUers who believe the worst H-1bs were born in the USA
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:22 PM
Oct 2017

and we're part of a multi-generational job stealing scheme planned out by our grandparents decades ago.

And in the security clearance field of work, Asians face the most discrimination under the idiotic belief that our true loyalties are to Asian countries, or if brown then I don't even want to say it. It's a big joke to some idiots. But perpetual foreign BS is a major roadblock in some careers. It doesn't happen to Germans, Russians, Israelis, etc.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
3. Why is it always assumed we are just visitors here..
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:53 PM
Oct 2017

just foreigners? We have never felt really welcomed in America and many of us were born here...

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. Part of the US myth that "real Americans"
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:58 PM
Oct 2017

are exclusively white, English speaking, Protestants.

All others are foreigners, including descendants of slaves who have been here for 400 years.

They will make an exception for Melania Trump.

IronLionZion

(45,450 posts)
6. The rest of us snuck in here illegally to vote for Democrats
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:07 PM
Oct 2017

I just got another large stack of cash from Soros this morning. He stopped writing checks to avoid a paper trail.


brush

(53,785 posts)
5. Too many entitiled, racist, misogynists in the country. The rest of us have to figure out how to...
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 08:05 PM
Oct 2017

work around them. It's not always easy to get around the roadblocks they throw in our path.

The one good thing is it's not everyone.

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