As one of those people stealing your jobs. I agree. And I don't even have to be on-site to do it. Because internet is awesome.
Interestingly, it's usually the middle-aged, middle-class who are complaining, considering the young and poor are most affected by it.
Or, you know, you're working class/poor black/unskilled laborer etc, which for a rich american or upper/middle-class it's same as "shit".
I find this argument BS. Those people, from factory workers, to cooks, to street cleaners, to miners, nurses, construction workers, farm workers, etc, do a valuable job, much more essential actually than most of "knowledge economy", in that everything would stop to a standstill without those jobs, whereas we did have an economy in the 70's even without Google and the internet.
The thing is, immigrants are "taking" all jobs. Not just the low level ones. I even know a bunch of people who immigrated to the US to steal the coveted job of "startup founder" and "CEO". Theoretically speaking, one more funded immigrant means one less funded true-blooded american. Whatever that might be since the US is a nation of immigrants anyway.
The lack of fellow-feeling with these people really disturbs me. OK, you were blessed with some brains and are doing well. Everybody grinding it out in your country with a worse job deserves your scorn?
Newsflash: odds are good one of your kids won't be especially smart. Unless you've lined up a huge inheritance, a horrible cut-throat labor market is probably going to hurt your progeny.
That's an appeal to relatively narrow self interests. The lack of concern for fellow citizens out of principle amazes me. If you think citizenship and borders are irrelevant you need to grow up. Who do you think will have your back if it hits the fan and we have to tough out a nuclear war or similar? These fresh of the boaters sure won't.
People will. FOB or not doesn't matter. I'd venture as far as saying that most FOBs I've met are far nicer people than most americans. Regardless of the originating culture.
Most Americans in fact display the exact same arrogance you just did. They're better than everyone else just because they happen to have won the geographic lottery.
America is great because it is filled with Americans. The geography is relevant but not so much as is fashionable to claim.
If you fill America with people from other places it ceases to be America. It will more and more resemble the inferior places the newcomers come from.
> FOB doesn't matter
Have you renounced your foreign national citizenship? How many passports do you hold? It definitely matters. You're going to go wherever you can earn a buck. Rootless cosmopolitan and you know it. I'm here until I die for sure.
I remember seeing Eddie Izzard in Slovenia. The fact that he's from the UK, not from Slovenia, did not seem to detract one bit from his famous Darth Vader joke.
Russel Crowe is also a great example of a comedian that's pretty well known in the US, but who is in fact from the UK.
But what about philosohers. Slavoj Zizek is really well known in the US and he's Slovenian. He's published more books with US publishers than he has at home.
University professors are also a great example of a high profession that is ruled by immigrants.