MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agoAmericans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, which is owned by a foreigner.message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1365arrow-down112
arrow-up1353arrow-down1message-squareAmericans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, which is owned by a foreigner.MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 month agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up80arrow-down1·1 month agoThis is a very common hypocrisy among first gen US immigrants. I’m a good Irish, not like those dirty ones coming over now; we should keep them out. See also: Ayn Rand
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 month agoPulling the ladder up behind you is an American tradition!
minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 month agoOr “I might be Irish, but at least I’m not an Italian” to not make yourself look better, but to make the others look worse
minus-squareofcourse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoI think the phenomenon is called something like “closing the door behind you.”
This is a very common hypocrisy among first gen US immigrants. I’m a good Irish, not like those dirty ones coming over now; we should keep them out.
See also: Ayn Rand
Pulling the ladder up behind you is an American tradition!
Or “I might be Irish, but at least I’m not an Italian” to not make yourself look better, but to make the others look worse
I think the phenomenon is called something like “closing the door behind you.”