Posted on 05/21/2022 1:49:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yesterday, I met a man from Mumbai. He happened to mention that he was new to Idaho, so I asked how new, and it turned out he'd been here for only a month and a half. He spoke good English, and I learned he'd gone to an English-speaking school, which made his getting a job here in Idaho possible.
I asked him what he thought about Boise, and he said he loved it here better than Mumbai. People don't care about you in a big city, he said. Whether you live or die makes no difference to them. But here in a little-big city like Boise, he said he could stand outside a store with a large purchase, and people would ask if he needed help. He'd already done this the day before and been asked by eight people. He'd never seen anything like it in his life.
His wife and children had the same impression and were generally impressed by how healthy the culture was here. Not the same ugly bustle of a New York City or a Philadelphia, the facelessness of the crowds, the concern for you and yours and yours only, but a real humanity that sees a neighbor as a neighbor and asks him if he needs anything.
The irony of the situation is that red-staters, and particularly people from rural areas, have a reputation for not only being unfriendly to foreigners, but being morally cold. The cities, on the other hand, have a reputation for tolerance and empathy — the idea that people care about the downtrodden and forgotten, and that they're doing whatever they can to help.
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What job did he get that could have went to someone born and raised in the states to citizen parents?
An anti “redneck” hit piece.
I’ve moved around my entire life, and living a lot of backwater places US and abroad, my job took me there and there’s this thing called “from here(s)” and “come here(s)” and it is prevalent just about anywhere. It might not be unfriendly, just indifferent.
Yes, pushing the ‘Nice” immigrant theory.
Domestic serfs are not willing to work cheap and are not subsidized by Uncle Sam.
And he will likely vote democrat as most Indians do and wreck the area. My area is being rapidly changed from a nice red “whiteopia” into a blue sewer.
I dunno... English teacher?
Regards,
My version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeBH294v6I
Traveling in a fried-out Kombi
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said
[Chorus]
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
[Verse 2]
Buying bread from a man in Boise
He was six-foot-four and full of moxie
I said, “Do you speak-a my language?”
And he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said
[Chorus]
I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover, yeah
[Verse 3]
Lyin’ in a den in Namba
With a slack jaw, and not much to chaw
I said to the man, “Are you trying to tempt me?
Because I come from the land of plenty”
And he said
[Chorus]
Oh! You come from a land down under? (Oh, yeah, yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? Ah
You better run, you better take cover
(’Cause we are) Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
(Hear, thunder) Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better, better run, you better take cover
Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? Oh, yeah
You better run, you better take cover
(We are) Living in a land down under, oh
Where women glow and men plunder
(Yeah, yeah) Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? (Yeah, yeah, thunder)
You better run, you better take cover
Living in a land down under (Living in a land down under)
Where women glow and men plunder
(Oh) Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
better:
Buying bread from a man from Bombai
He was six-foot-four and had much to say
I said, “Do you speak-a my language?”
And he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said
I just have to tell my son to get the speakers on so I can listen to it.
Townies vs. everybody else.
I disagree that it is “indifferent.”
I’ve seen enough of it here in the People’s Republic of Maryland.
I’ve lived here since about 1980, yet I am ‘not a native’.
Naked tribalism. That is all it is.
Ahhhh. The grammar Nazi strikes again.
Regards,
‘Pod
Perhaps an H1B- visa recipient which, also, makes him a serf.
Possibly taking a job from a homegrown IT-guy/gal. I won’t feel bad for them if they voted for CornPop, though.
Maybe because we actually do it and do not spend time virtue signaling how morally superior we are.
Who cares what the blue state leftists think or dont think. They must be defeated.
“He spoke good English.”
Hopefully better than the author.
The post has a bad case of excerptitis. If you read the whole thing it’s pretty clear he’s not knocking rednecks.
You win the thread!
Great reply.
So,why should we follow your advice?
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