> Jessia is the American dream.
She's the one who made it, unlike thousands of others, who worked equally hard, and didn't.
No family should have both parents working 12 hours a day just to survive, period.
She's the one who made it, unlike thousands of others, who worked equally hard, and didn't.
No family should have both parents working 12 hours a day just to survive, period.
Data?
Immigrants continue to do very well in the U.S., often succeeding to a greater extent than people born here.
I don’t know why you decided to compare immigrants to natives. I made no such distinction. Nobody, immigrant or not, should have to work 12 hours a day just to survive.
Isn't living there a choice, not something they are forced into?
Did the electrician or garbage truck driver who's parents came from just as much not also make it?
Why is it implied in so many comments around here that anyone who didn't go to college and get a white collar job pushing papers/code/spreadsheets didn't make it?
What are you arguing here? That all people are equally comfortable and all jobs are equally good, and that implying that suffering is bad is demeaning to the people who suffer? It's like upside-down wokeness. While some people are arguing to put in wheelchair ramps, this is like instead insisting that implying that wheelchair users can't walk as well as everyone else is prejudiced.
My point is that it's unrealistic to expect people to go from refugee to hedge fund manager in one generation. Refugee to stable blue collar is reasonable.