MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoAmericans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, which is owned by a foreigner.message-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1363
arrow-up1363message-squareAmericans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, which is owned by a foreigner.MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up80·1 year agoThis is a very common hypocrisy among first gen US immigrants. I’m a good Irish, not like those dirty ones coming over now; we should keep them out. See also: Ayn Rand
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 year agoPulling the ladder up behind you is an American tradition!
minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoOr “I might be Irish, but at least I’m not an Italian” to not make yourself look better, but to make the others look worse
minus-squareofcourse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoI think the phenomenon is called something like “closing the door behind you.”
This is a very common hypocrisy among first gen US immigrants. I’m a good Irish, not like those dirty ones coming over now; we should keep them out.
See also: Ayn Rand
Pulling the ladder up behind you is an American tradition!
Or “I might be Irish, but at least I’m not an Italian” to not make yourself look better, but to make the others look worse
I think the phenomenon is called something like “closing the door behind you.”