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Why do children of immigrants dislike immigrants? (voxeurop.eu)
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Research shows that immigrants tend to bring their prejudices with them, adopting the anti-immigrant sentiments of their new hosts. Middle-class immigrants may fear a loss of status. Others simply seek to distinguish themselves from a stigmatised group.

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn't do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn't see anti-immigrant sentiment.

Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, "Looking Backward":

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

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They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

That's a really good piece of artwork, that's not an easy concept to pull off and look at how well the artist nailed the physical resemblances between the faces, live vs shadow.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Gotta love how far and comfy they look now that theyr native

[-] [email protected] 39 points 6 hours ago

I grew up in the Midwest as a child of a Mexican and American. By 16, I was regurgitating Ben Shapiro anti-immigration rhetoric. Why?

The same reason anyone is racist. I grew up around it. The people I knew and loved were white and that was reflected in the media I was exposed to. Subliminal messages and implied suggestions over entire childhood. They might claim they don't like the illegal, but the truth is that they've internalized the hatred of the culture they identify with.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 7 hours ago

Cuban here, like many others have said "burning the ladder behind you"

but adding to it. In my opinion it has to do with seeing a reflection of your past self and associating the difference with positive progress then being disgusted by your own struggle and putting that emotion on your next of kin.

Yes it's frustrating to be born in a third world country and have to come legally in a raft and have to work for under minimum wage for multiple years to be able to afford even the most basic necessities .... but it's important to remember where you come from and to use that disgust to make the world a better place so that no one else has to go thru the same.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 8 hours ago

Pulling the ladder up behind you is a fundamental and ugly part of human nature

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

But even the terminology suggests you're coming from a lower place. So wouldn't it make sense that the people from the place you're coming from have some responsibility for the state it was in. Like how right now we're seeing a decline in American culture and increase in corruption. It was voted in by Americans. So if Americans were to all of a sudden immigrate to say Canada to get away, wouldn't they fucking hate it if other Americans who voted for Republicans start following them because of the opportunity.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

It could be a perspective thing. Children of immigrants possibly don’t see themselves as immigrants or even adjacent.

One other thought I had was about trust fund kids thinking they “worked as hard as anyone else” for their riches. For example, I remember when Bezos was building Amazon. He certainly did work hard to build that site, but the benefits of the loan his parents provided cannot be overlooked or forgotten. Same thing with Elon… most rich people, for that matter.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

They feel they suffered more than the other ones do.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Because the real world doesn't operate on social media logic, so they actually respond with real human reactions.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I think immigrants should divorce themselves from the other immigrants.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Social media addicts are probably the only people in the whole world who don't already distinguish between different types of immigrants.

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