Immigrating

THOUSANDS, perhaps tens of thousands of Afghani refugees will soon resettle in the United States, contributing their culture and talents, and, like all immigrant groups, improving the United States by reriching and diversifying its culture, providing work, producing prosperity. The bad news, from the viewpoint of white conservative Christian Donald Trump supporters, is that the newly arrived Americans will be majority non Christian, dark skinned (non "white"), and not inclined to become Republicans. Already, before they even arrive, white conservative Christian America despises them, and is determined to try to keep them out. Anything to preserve America's traditinal white Christian dominant culture. Afghanistan, because of its non Christian non white majority culture, and because of its pervasive poverty, is similar, in a general sense, to those horrible African "shit hole countries", so despised by the racist Trump and his racist supporters, about which Donald Trump spoke so disparagingly when he thought the tape recorder was either turned off, or that it didn't matter whether it was or wasn't. Trump clearly expressed his preference that future immigrants to the United States be Norwegians, who just happen to be majority white and Christian. We can assme that Trump is actually more amenable to human beings that. that.Keenly aware of the relative importance of one's ethnic and cultural heritage as a factor in accounting for one's personal success, Trump, throughout most of his life, has identifeid himself as having Swedish ancestry, rather than his actual German. His grandfather came from Germany under inauspcious circumstances, having been kicked out of the country for criminal activity, at a time when being of German descent was not a pathway to popularity or success in teh United States. Immigrants fleeing poverty, violence, or oppression who manage to make it into the U.S., legally or otherwise, often initially view America, for some reason, as the proverbial land of opportunity, unliminted. Many of them soon discover that poverty and violence are common in their new home, if less prominent. They also discover racial discriination, which is far more prominent in the land of opportunity. Generally, immigrants work harder, overcome more obstacles, commit fewer crimes, and succeed better than native born Americans, a fact that is not often mentioned in the mainstream conservative media. Our new Afghani-Americans will almost certainlly fit this pattern, will contribute much to the American economy and culture, and will be villified by racist conservatives. That shame is ours, not theirs.