Person moved here in their teens. He is now in his 20s. He really believes Americans are only white people. And he keeps referring to the white people are the ones causing all the problems. I said it's not the Americans it's the government and if the United States government is treating the rest of the world the way they are treating us now then I can see why the rest of the world doesn't like the Americans. Then he changed the subject. Then I came back and asked if we could talk cause I'm highly concerned about this whole white people logic and trying to understand. I'm white just to put that out there. While we were talking the logic never matched up to how white people specifically are the cause of the problems. Then he asked me who lives in America and I kept saying Americans. Then he said but you're white and I pointed out he was brown but he went through the citizenship process. Then he said in his old country it was so dangerous but here the white people are afraid and that's why they pull to the side of the road when an ambulance is passing because they won't get a ticket. I told him that isn't because of fear but out of respect for the ambulance to get to the emergency situation to save a life. I understand the fact he was raised more from a different country but the fact is this country is being influenced to believe what he already believes. When he said I refer to myself as an American he said I lumped myself into the white people. With him being brown I used his same logic and asked him "so if you were a burglarer and robbed a place does that make it a fair judgment to say all brown people steal?" It's sad the critical thinking skills wasn't there. I would stump him and he would just change the subject. It's sad and makes me understand how in critical care the free world needs to be if this is really the last free place on the planet and we are borderline unfree.
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The logic I'm grasping is because he's brown, as he identified himself as before I went with it. The gist of what I got is he's here because there's always electric and drinkable water running. This has opened up my eyes to understand the rest of the world is selfish due to no fault of their own because their basic human needs are food/water/habitable shelter is not consistently met. If those leaders were parents and their people were the kids, CPS would have come for their asses long time ago for the abuse. It really is up to the Americans to speak up and ask the abused to correct questions so they end up reflecting in the fact they've been abused and now are safe. We have to help keep the triggers going so they can see they don't have to be neglected anymore and that it doesn't have to be better you than me and that there is plenty to share as long as you treat everyone the way you want to be treated.