Posted on 02/19/2005 4:34:21 PM PST by CurlyDave
The only thing that I will add,is that Holland has HATED/looked down on the Afrikaaners for hundreds of years and is THE last place on the face of the earth that will take them in.
There is an immigration visa lottery,which costs money to apply for and the sum is pretty hefty,to get such a visa to America.We take only a very few,every few months.There are two ways around that...work for a company which will send you to America to work and get you a green card (this includes H1B workers too) or apply for an immigration visa proving that you have at least $100,000 American...which is a considerable challenge for most South Africans,even what is considered to be wealthy ones,over there,due to the exchange rate.
Nope, no regrets and I was not baiting...
Yeah, whatever skippy.
They live behind HIGH stone walls,topped with electrified razor wire and broken glass and EVERYTHING is security alarm wired too;this is in a gated community.Yet,they go on vacation and live their lives.It's a different world.
And when some of them came here (for my daughter's wedding,life here and our freedom,was hard for some of them to get used to/deal with. It wasn't only that we are so much safer,but the fact that we have so much more available to us.
The thing that everyone needs to understand,Americans and everyone else alike,is that other places and other people aren't the same.Life really IS quite different in other places.America and Americans are what they see in our T.V. shows and movies,for example.
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