Letters of the Week: Feb 13 - Feb 17 - Immigration Daily Blog

Ilya Somin's excellent What?s Distinctive About America? is something I've discussed often with my fellow-immigrants. Our near-universal experience (even those of Americans who unlike me and the author came here recently or not as small children) is comparable to the authors. Americans are, for all the rhetoric about ingrained American prejudice, remarkably accepting of immigrants and remarkably unconscious of ethnicity. In fact, among fellow immigrants, the few dissenters from this observation tend to be those who've forgotten their mother tongue and who are most assimilated into academia - those we consider least likely to have an accurate picture of anything to compare the United States to.
Now, I work on the Black Farmers' USDA litigation and am cognizant that racism still exists (as do greed, avarice and all the rest of the sins) and that it can, at times, remain institutionalized, but on balance this is still a welcoming place. A thoroughgoing rationalization and simplification of our standards for legal immigration would do wonders for our legal environment, which is far less accepting, just as our protestations of admiration for entrepreneurs are increasingly cultural rather than de jure.

Source: http://blogs.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/2012/02/letters-of-the-week-feb-13-feb-17.html

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