This a phenomenon seen the world over sadly. Immigrants in every country are often keen to pull the ladder up behind them. Trump is German married to a Slovenian. As for Musk, the US isn’t even his second citizenship.
It’s a similar impulse to the one that creates violent homophobia in closeted men; an immigrant wants to feel like they’re a full member of their adopted society, but when they see another immigrant they instinctively judge them as an outsider, which in turn creates cognitive dissonance because it forces them to reckon with their own identity in response.
They hope that getting rid of the other immigrants will make them more accepted because in their minds they’re already Real Americans, but don’t realize that when it comes to bigotry, what goes around comes around.
This a phenomenon seen the world over sadly. Immigrants in every country are often keen to pull the ladder up behind them. Trump is German married to a Slovenian. As for Musk, the US isn’t even his second citizenship.
It’s a similar impulse to the one that creates violent homophobia in closeted men; an immigrant wants to feel like they’re a full member of their adopted society, but when they see another immigrant they instinctively judge them as an outsider, which in turn creates cognitive dissonance because it forces them to reckon with their own identity in response.
They hope that getting rid of the other immigrants will make them more accepted because in their minds they’re already Real Americans, but don’t realize that when it comes to bigotry, what goes around comes around.