Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”

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[–] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m American: my dad told me a couple years ago that immigrants were “unclean.” I’m almost 40, and that was the first time he’d ever used that phrase. That’s probably the first time I realized how “mainstream” extremism had become, since he has virtually zero online presence.

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    Just FYI, "first generation" refers to the first generation born in the adopted country. Which is to say, if you immigrated, your kids would be first generation Americans.

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