This. The honest answer is some degree of “We’ve been generous, but they will kill us once they outnumber us.”

Yeah but “my people” is humanity. That’s the difference.

You’d want to look at how minorities are treated in the countries the immigrants are coming from to predict future behavior. The answer is usually going to be “quite a bit worse, actually.”

It doesn’t work like that, unless all immigrants came from the same place, as a homogenous group.

I know, some immigrants are just as xenophobic as the “original” inhabitants of their new home (e.g. my mom), but never in the same way as it was in their former country.

But emigrating in itself means a desire for change; a desire to change.

I think it’s a good gotcha. It says: what are you really afraid of? That you’re going to be treated just as badly as you are treating minorities?

That’s what this is about, not any hypothetical future situation where $MINORITY becomes the majority. That’s just thinking in the same terms of paranoia the xenophobes are thinking in.

For some people, it’s not the discrimination, its job opportunities, economic factors, and sometimes political factors.

My family is Han Chinese, we wouldn’t really get “racial discrimination” in mainland China like ever, since its a racially homogenous society for the most part, except maybe sometimes regional discrimination, that aren’t really that bad. BUT, its very difficult to get jobs in China, the jobs you do get sucked, yes it’s even worse than the US.

The US does have a lot of discrimination, but if you can just endure that, everything else would likely be better. Just stay in blue cities, and its fine. I don’t think I can ever go to any red states or red towns in the US, those terrify me.

Edit: Also note, we did not come during this admin, we were here for more than a decade.

As a minority immigrant who is a majority in his country I left fully knowing I’d have to deal with some amount of racism and discrimination, but the money saved could buy me a better lifestyle and an early retirement back home.

I write in American under race

What if we all identify as humans?

I wish it were that simple. Most of us are good old fashioned American mutts, but a significant portion of the population picks only single ancestral heritages to latch onto. Like, I’ve got Irish ancestors, but I have so relatively few of them that to claim being Irish American would be misleading at best. We cosplay our favorite ethnicity once, maybe twice a year on the “appropriate” holidays, and maybe more if we’ve got cool clothing in our heritage like lederhosen and can play the concertina