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[quote=Anonymous]I just want to reiterate what others are saying here. For working class immigrants, it typically takes several generations to accumulate wealth and hit the kind of middle class respectability that OP appears to be looking for.

Yes, there are exceptions, and we celebrate those exceptions, but at the population level social mobility is hard and slow.

I'm the second/third generation born in the United States to a variety of Eastern and Southern European immigrants. At the time that my great-grandparents and/or grandparents immigrated, it was generally assumed that Polish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc immigrants were incapable to learning English and entering the middle class.

My grandparents' generation included a carpenter, a janitor, a SAHM, and a domestic laborer.

My parents' generation (with siblings) included a nurse, a teacher, someone who owned their own construction agency, and a SAHM.

My generation includes a city planner, a lawyer, a veterinarian, and a senior military official.

If you had looked at us after only one generation in the United States, you might have wondered if we were taking advantage of the resources this country was offering, but the truth is that social mobility is hard.  [/quote]

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