It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
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America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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