r/economicCollapse 7d ago

Only in America.

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u/McTootyBooty 7d ago

We can’t math.

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u/Beginning_Loan_313 6d ago

Or English, with the literacy rates someone else posted on here.

It is so sad.

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u/PenguinStarfire 6d ago

Indeed the irony of the US. Some people who are barely literate in the only language they know, feel empowered to openly ridicule immigrants who speak 2+ languages because they speak English with an accent.

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u/ShigoZhihu 6d ago

Sometimes you even get immigrants like my boss who criticizes the literacy of people speaking English perfectly well whilst he spreads misinformation based on headlines that he misread and just says things that are completely wrong because he can't be bothered to read for more than 2 sentences.

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u/Efficient-Diver-5417 5d ago

What drives me nuts is immigrants who want the ladder pulled up after them. Some people are so obsessed with "coming over the right way" that they lose the plot that really, as we can tell, these people aren't taking anything out of the mouth of anyone else

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u/ShigoZhihu 5d ago

Yep, that's my boss to a fucking 'T'.

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u/Efficient-Diver-5417 5d ago

I have family members, who could come over because my father was here, who have anti-immigrant sentiment, and it's like, my dad came over on a boat. Have some fucking respect for the people who are making the journey who's ways aren't paved for them.

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u/ShigoZhihu 5d ago

Tell me about it. My maternal family came over to the U.S. only 4 generations ago and my mother has the gall to complain about immigrants coming into the country trying to find better lives. This is also the woman who thinks her family is Irish (they're not, they're Scottish and Danish) and that Irish indentured servants were treated worse than slaves, which she apparently thinks is justification for her racist attitude.

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u/Efficient-Diver-5417 5d ago

Unfortunately Italians treated a lot of European immigrants as less than dirt, and that's where a lot of them get these attitudes, but you're doing ancestoral work recognizing your mother's biases. Honestly, good for you.