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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]America is the greatest country on earth. The best place to start a career, to take risks, to get rich, to live at the bleeding edge of technology and arts.

Its people are Americans—who’d be here even if it weren’t any of those. Their ancestors were here when it wasn’t.

If you’re like me, a beneficiary of all of that, I insist that you think about them. Think about everything they went through from Jamestown to settling the plains, to carving cities out of West.

Settlers in New England who crossed the Atlantic, coal miners in Appalachian, planters in Dixie, pioneers across the West, navigating the Rockies and drilling for oil and panning for gold on the banks of the Pacific.

Think about all of the fevers that took little children too early, brutalities suffered at the hands of the aborigines, crop failures and families that starved. Think about all the dead young men who never saw their 30s from Bunker Hill to the Alamo to Gettysburg.

In one American lifetime they went from man taking flight from Earth to taking one small step on the Moon. What a people. Think about them and the comforts and opportunities they generously shared with us newcomers—did we ever suffer for them?

Think about that. Have some respect for their roots and history, instead of putting them down.[/quote]

I am a foreigner who moved here for grad school in 2007, married a 3rd gen American, and now am an American.  I don’t know any of the people or events or locations you are citing. Whatever.

I hate museums and cultural trips so don’t care to learn that way. I like where I grew up better but my job and money is here. Oh well.[/quote]

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