I’m originally from the UK but I’m now in Canada and I hover around some groups of people from the UK online and in person and I swear the Brits are the most whiny people to ever move anywhere. These people genuinely move to places and expect it to be exactly like the UK and when it’s not they shit on the country. Idk if it’s some leftover colonial mindset or something that hasn’t been removed from their psyche?
I’ve heard people complain that there’s no British cream (like the standard whipping cream which exists but is called something different) in stores, British bread, British seasonings, very specific type of curry called the brimingham balti which I don’t think I’ve seen outside of northern England. Amongst many other things and it’s absolutely mind blowing
Genuinely makes me embarassed to be in anyway related to these people. Anyone else get absolutely sick of your old countries people?
It’s because you have a self-selection filter by distance. The only Turkish or Middle eastern immigrants that can make it to the US are the ones who have means in their own country, so they’re already more likely to be educated. Whereas a majority of the original Turkish immigrants in Europe were the lowest possible-educated because they were taken in as guest workers for manual labor, and had to be as cheap as possible. This also meant they were the most conservative people possible, and that has created knock-on effects.
That’s what my Turkish friend here in the US told me. He hates European Turks.
Now, what still makes me scratch my head are the Latinos, because they have that proximity to the US that the turks have to Europe, but I don’t see that same sentiment among young Latinos in the US. They embrace their identity as Latino Americans, and they’re all grateful to have the privilege of being US citizens.
Mexicans have western, European roots and heritage and tend to have the same religion as the majority of people in the US. This causes less visceral causes for friction beyond the first generation. A Latin person born in the US, speaking English natively without a foreign accent, is much more assimilated than the second or third generations of many migrants to Europe whose traditions conflict more with the dominant culture. Especially, islam as a religion is more conservative than the constitution and cultures of West European democracies, which are also much less religious than North America to begin with.
A lot of Latinos are Catholics and you have to remember that the Southwest was annexed by US from Mexico so there have been Latinos living in Southwestern states like Texas or Arizona since the middle or late 19th century. The culture is deeply ingrained there so it’s pretty easy for new Latinos/Latinas arriving in the US to settle. Not to mention Puerto Ricans (who are born US citizens) are spread all over the US and have been for a very long time, since PR became US territory