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I find the idea of a Canadian that thinks personally offensive! (hexbear.net)
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[–] 28 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

What's up with Americans thinking that everyone on Earth wants to move there and be a citizen? I hear this constantly from US boomers and it genuinely baffles me because it's just so incorrect.

One of the only things where you'll hear someone confidently state this in public and then like 1/3 of the strangers within earshot will pull a face like "the fuck?"

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Decades of American Dream, Shining City On The Hill, Land Of Opportunity type propaganda. Plus the fact that you did/do have plenty of people trying to immigrate and seek a better life in america (because america/it's proxies/other imperial states wrecked their home country but they don't focus on that)

    Plus that kind of boomer has rarely travelled outside their comfort zone or met people from different walks of life so they can't comprehend why people wouldn't want a 40 year mortgage on a suburban home, 2.5 kids, a lawn, suv, 2 hour daily commute, and zero community

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    My parents have fully internalized this sort of propaganda and it was always so frustrating as a kid to bring like a whole ass PowerPoint of facts with citations to try and correct the buckwild stuff they think and it was always like a brick wall.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 day ago

    American Exceptionalism might be the most successful propaganda project of all time. So many people (not just Americans either) have bought in completely to the idea that America is the Best Country In The World™ and refuse to budge despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary.

    The Newsroom is Libslop but that monologue on "how is america the greatest country in the world" hit the nail on the fucking head and that was almost 20 years ago. America has never been the greatest yet legions of people have the unshakable faith that there's no place better in the world

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    Also because living in the US as a migrant non citizen in any kind of longer term situation is a hell of bureaucracy and precarity. It used to be if you became a citizen you would at least not feel like you were gonna get kicked out of the country for no reason.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Constant bombardment about an immigration "crisis" plus selection bias. The only foreigners these people interact with are people who did want to come to the US.

    Reminds me of my buddy who said his Venezuelan neighbor was happy they kidnapped Maduro. Like, yeah, dude, there's a reason they left. You're not gonna find and Chinese-Americans who like Xi Jinping either.

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