[rbg81]

It’s what immigrants do. You flee the old country because its a dangerous cesspool. Finally, you arrive somewhere safe. But, after a few years, you get nostalgic and start trying to recreate the hell-hole you left.

Of course, previous waves of European immigrants did this much more benignly.

[cloudmountain]

It’s what immigrants do. You flee the old country because its a dangerous cesspool. Finally, you arrive somewhere safe. But, after a few years, you get nostalgic and start trying to recreate the hell-hole you left.
TRUE ENOUGH! The recreation is ALWAYS flawed, maudlin and filled with the very things/people from which/whom they STRUGGLED to escape. STUPID stuff, almost always.
My mother's relatives escaped because they didn't want to serve in the NEVER-ENDING wars in northeastern Europe. They were, essentially, draft dodgers.

Of course, previous waves of European immigrants did this much more benignly.
I would think so.

****** Lol. How long do you think it will take the usual "except" FReepers to log on and tell you how WRONG you were and how THEIR European relatives were SO, SO, SO much different than what we discuss here?
5, 4, 3, 2.....