“Duc and kids like him are welcome. “
More than welcome. I want to trade our OWS punks for young people like Duc. I don’t think there are any people with a greater work ethic than the Asians.
I am close friends with a Filipino family. They have menial jobs but are grateful to live in America. At one time one biked to 3 different jobs. It took 15 years for all of their family to come to America through the INS. I just admire their perseverance and devotion to family.
Nor have I ever heard of an Asian complaining or whining or bitching.
I worked at Camp Pendleton when the first Viets were coming over. (Our keypunch girls were going crazy trying to decipher their printing on some documents.)
These people might as well have been from Mars - they looked different, spoke a strange language, worshipped a different God, ate weird food, etc. (One wit mentioned that they were making egg rolls while on the plane coming over and were setting up food shops the minute they landed.)
Four years later their kids were not only speaking English, they were class valedictorians like Duc, just to name a few. Things got so bad at the Community College I attended, that the American kids were looking to see who signed up for classes, and if there were too many Viet names, they passed. It seems that the Newbies were skewing the Bell Curve so bad, the American kids had to actually WORK for their grades.
Would that all our immigrants were like them.