America also has crumbling infrastructure, dilapidated historical monuments, and neglected city centers. But there’s still a reason why people come here from places that boast of more glamorous sights and sounds — and choose to stay.
Because despite all the craziness current cultural predicament of political correctness — there is still substance to our culture: our way of life, our person-to-person interaction with each other...things like: customer service, personal responsibility, and rule of law...
It takes generations to instill such values in a people.
I bet most aren’t coming for American values as evident by their reluctance to integrate.
“Because despite all the craziness current cultural predicament of political correctness — there is still substance to our culture: our way of life, our person-to-person interaction with each other...things like: customer service, personal responsibility, and rule of law...”
Of those, the rule of law and maybe personal responsibility is what they come for, IMO. But the REAL REASON they come here is because if their kids become doctors, they can easily get rich, and if they run of the mill professionals (accountants, engineers, etc.), they can at least be upper middle in most of the, and even higher in some of the country (like the south). Back home, the only way to do that is to start a business (huge gamble) and have to be paying off politicians along the way. And for the immigrants themselves (as opposed to their kids), if they instead live cheap and manual labor, they can still send buku bucks back to their families at home.