-"Tom?" "Yes, Clive?" "Have you ever sung the national anthem?" "Oh, lots of times, sir." "I don't mean officially." "You mean just to show I'm patriotic? Good gods, no. That would be a
rather odd thing to do," said the captain.
"And how about the flag?" "Well, obviously Isalute it every day, sir." "But you don't wave it, at all?" the major enquired. "I think I waved a paper one a few times when I was a
little boy. Patrician's birthday or something. We stood in the streets as he rode by and we shouted 'Hurrah!"" "Never since then?" "Well, no, Clive," said the captain, looking embarrassed, "I'd be very worried if I saw a man singing the national anthem and waving the flag, sir, It's really a thing foreigners do," "Really? Why?" "We don't need to show we're patriotic, sir. I mean, this is Ankh-Morpork. We don't have to make a big fuss about being the best, sir. We just know."
From Nightwatch by Sir Terry Pratchett
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Would Hollywood have accepted the son of German/Austrian immigrants who converted from Judaism to Catholicism to escape prosecution and was called Frederick Austerlitz? Not until the talented young dancer changed his name to Fred Astaire.
Would US investors have given money to the son of an immigrant from Syria with a slightly dark complexion called Abdul Lateef Jandali? Yet, they had no problems funding the dream of his own computer company when the guy was suddenly called Steve Jobs. Which sounded just about white. Even though his adoptive mother (Clara Hagopian) was also an immigrant, actually from Eastern Europa, namely Armenia. Not that far from where Job's biological mother was from; Joanne Schieble was German.
As 'Alphonso' Senator Cruz was considered a half-blood, thanks to his Cuban father; as 'Ted' he was suddenly turned white. If we did wat conservatives demanded and started calling everyone by their original name, you would have no idea who we were talking about.
Nimarata Randwani? Yeshua Ben Jozef? The business man named Drumpf? James Donald Bowman?
Many Americans (so, not Republicans and other racists and conservatives: they want what the nazis wanted and the Taliban and zionism want: no rights for homosexuals and hardly any rights for women and 'foreigners'. Fun fact: all fascists (nazis, conservative christians, muslim extremists and zionists alike, see women solely as creatures who should take care of their husbands, children and the household) who care for human rights, dislike antisemites and advocate for equal rights for the LGBTQIA+-community adored their 'real American!' Marie Jana Korbelová. Or - as they called her - Madeleine Albright.
The US is a great country: all you have to do to make people accept you as an immigrant, is changing your last name to something that sounds just about white. Just ask Alphonso 'Ted' Cruz.
What do you think the USA would look like if they had actually closed the border 300 years ago?
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