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I see people are discovering that Tucker Carlson descends from immigrants who left other countries for the more promising shores of America and had trouble assimilating and learning English.
I wish you well as you process this shocking and devastating news.
I wish you well as you process this shocking and devastating news.
And I'll remind you that in 1751 Benjamin Franklin worried that the Germans in PA would âshortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.â
Shortly indeed. 1751.
Shortly indeed. 1751.
In 1896, a piece in the Atlantic bemoaned how âFifty, even thirty years ago, there was a rightful presumption regarding the average immigrant that he was among the most enterprising, thrifty, alert, adventurous, and courageous of the community from which he came.â
âToday the presumption is completely reversed.â
1896.
TLDR: we have a long history of trying to pull up the ladder behind us. "Our" wave of immigration was always the "good" one.
1896.
TLDR: we have a long history of trying to pull up the ladder behind us. "Our" wave of immigration was always the "good" one.
(I wrote about all this here.) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mendelsohn-resistance-genealogy-20180209-story.html
