Their behavior is cultural. If they are Americans their morals and values are from the old country.
They are not western values.
I saw this callous disregard over and over when I lived in California, among them.
The primary thing is not getting caught, not whether the behavior is right or wrong. It is a depature from our norms, and their presence devalues our society.
Well said.
I doubt that these two are fifth generation. Even so, this behavior speaks to the fact that there are certain cultures which consistently view life as a zero-sum game and that socialization to western and US values is, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.
They are socialized only to the extent that they vote D and are on the public dole, one way or another.
Agreed. In California, I find the racism from immigrant Chinese people, the ones who actually travelled here from China, the absolute worst. As a white American I am not treated badly, insulted or mocked or denigrated, that's too crude. No, it's far worse than that - I simply and literally don't exist to them. I am not acknowledged in public by Chinese people, they walk through me, talk through me, stand in my way, never make eye contact, never say excuse me, never smile - nothing. They are very pointedly and deliberately not polite to me in ways big and small, simply because to them I am not there. Its what they don't do, the human interactions they absolutely refuse to have, and its not "cultural" because they observe these things with each other. It's both weird and, when understood, infuriating. They are hard, absolute racists down to their bones.