Wealthy leftists have so successfully erased the issue of class from every corner of their consciousness that they sincerely don’t understand that a neighborhood filled with immigrant professors and dentists is different from the kind of immigrant neighborhood that less wealthy Americans get.
I also want to note that “immigrants commit far fewer crimes” is a talking point that does not correspond with reality. These numbers do not exist because nobody was ever allowed to count. There’s literally no way to calculate it in any meaningful manner. For example, I was naturalized in 2016. If I commit a crime, will it count as immigrant crime? Obviously not. Am I still an immigrant? Just as obviously yes.
These are empty, meaningless talking points by people whose understanding of reality is constrained by ideological blinkers. “I don’t know any drug addicts in my very privileged life, so drug addiction must be a myth” would be an equivalent of the quoted take. “I’ve never been to Australia, so it must be invented.”
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“All my life, I’ve lived in [affluent] areas…”
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That’s exactly what this is. Highly educated, well-to-do immigrants have the intellect and the cultural sophistication to inscribe themselves pretty seamlessly into the similarly highly educated and well-off sliver of the host society. They can afford a large supporting cast of therapists, personal trainers, etc to help reduce the psychological cost of migration. They can become bilingual or multilingual. In short, these are people who can definitely eat cake in the absence of bread.
But what about everybody else? The ones who will never learn the language, never stop recreating their homeland in the immigrant enclave? These are the overwhelming majority.
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Yes, that is true, negative social impacts have always largely depended upon local, the neighborhood, basically who your neighbors are. When we moved here, the area was semi-rural; single homes on small acreages along a cul-de-sac, providing the positive and negatives of small town life, but a short drive to the services of a small city. Privileged you bet; weekend potlucks, card games, amateur music, lots of kids behaving like kids, but usually well behaved — because everybody knew everybody.
Drugs were always the danger because of the climate; the source of crime was only very occasionally amongst locals, rather mostly from those fleeing larger cities, and some notably recent immigrants with gang affiliations. Our city’s recent efforts to increase tax flow by allowing smaller lots with multi-suite monster housing has also brought local increased crime; drug dealers, theft, and prostitution.
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My neighborhood is full of Zimbabwean immigrant nannies and restaurant workers. Their English is mostly better than local black people, so what’s not to like?
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Is your country somehow short of native nannies and restaurant workers? No, then quit trying to support putting your fellow citizens out of work. South Africa already has far too much unemployment, crime, and corruption.
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Well, obviously, the reason Zimbabweans are in SA is because they are fleeing dysfunction in their own country. If anybody has responsibility for them it is SA, since Rhodes himself lived in SA. His legacy is a topic for the BLM to this day.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Memorial
His bungled special military operation from Rhodesia preceded the Boer War, which led to the rise of Afrikaaner nationalism in SA, and left Rhodesia as an isolated pro British rump state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameson_Raid
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