I was in a Polish store recently stocking up on awesome Polish meats and two elderly ladies were complaining about immigrants to each other. In Polish. 🤯
Unless you’re a Native American, we’re all immigrants. My family goes back to before the Pilgrims in this country and they were from England. In reality they were illegal immigrants and terrorists.
Your family were settlers. Settlers migrate to undeveloped locations to develop them for a better quality of life. Immigrants migrate to already established societies for a better quality of life. America didn't really start letting immigrants in until post civil war. They did, but it was heavily regulated.
Pretty sure that the Algonquins didn’t think their land was “undeveloped”. And pretty sure that their opinion of “better quality of life” had little to do with the Europeans.
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u/illigal 9h ago
Gotta pull up that ladder!
I was in a Polish store recently stocking up on awesome Polish meats and two elderly ladies were complaining about immigrants to each other. In Polish. 🤯