Now I am not going to dispute your generalization too vigorously. However, I would note that it holds more for immigrants from an earlier period. I don't think it holds at all for people who have immigrated from Eastern Europe in the last ten years.
Also, does it not occur to you, Wojtek, that there were other people even in the earlier period who were playing the same game that you did? I think that you are insufficiently cynical, my good fellow, :-). Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 4:37 PM Subject: Re: chill out (was: guns prevent violence!)
>At 03:33 AM 5/6/99 +1000, Angela wrote:
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>>>I would not take very seriously what immigrants, especially from Eastern
>>>Europe say about persecution in their old countries - they tend to
>>>exaggerate profusely (and for a good reason, since they are rewarded for
>>>doing that).
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>>oh wojtek....
>>do you happen to work for the immigration dept or something?
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>No, I went through the process myself, playing the refugee game, you know
>-- telling the bullshit Westerners want to hear, staying in a camp for a
>while, mingling with other refugees, dealing with the INS nazis (who told
>me, and I quote, we like white people like you to immigrate to this
>country), etc.
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>Wojtek
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