He used the word 'nuanced' so that negates everything, including reality. The word 'nuanced' is often used by pseudo intellectuals disguising their inability to explain the contradictions between their professed beliefs and the real world. Finally, his spiel looks like it was copied/pasted from other pseudo intellectuals from the New York Times, The Nation, et al.
Whole US does, but You have stereotypes in your own country.
Use a bit if common sense dude, all 3 branches of government are in Washington D.C. Legislative, Executive and Judicial. Are you trying to say people that are commenting or criticizing govt branches 24/7 are in your view actually commenting on city of DC. Do you know the difference between institution, local and federal govts?
I just did, sh!t and piss. May be you are excited, cuz you flew directly outta your village in Punjab to NY, but there’s beautiful world out there. Now buy a ticket and travel the world. Maybe you see something new.NYC is the greatest city in the world, change my mind
When I was active duty and stationed in the UK, I learned a hard lesson about citizenship vs culture, and came an admission about the US. The lesson came from a Frenchman. He said that the US is the only country, so far, that you can become an American. In other countries, you can have French or Spanish or Italian or German citizenship, but you will never be French, Spaniard, Italian, or German. If you want to know how is that possible, you might want to ask the Chinese guy who used the word 'nuanced' of the difference.
Yes because being the center of an empire allows you to absorb resources and wealth from the far reaches of the empire. This draws people to your core. What is hard to understand? The fact that people from poorer countries want to immigrate to the US for personal or economic gain is not justification for murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent lives to feed a corrupt military industrial complex and parasitic billionaires and their politician servants.
Many immigrants said an anti-immigrant political climate motivated them to become citizens in order to vote.Todd Heisler/The New York Times
On a windswept morning last spring, Mom Leveille slipped into a flowing red dress and high-heeled sandals and headed to a ballpark in Brooklyn, her nerves jangled. A Cambodian refugee, Ms. Leveille had applied for U.S. citizenship nearly two years earlier, and, finally, the moment was nigh when she would take a permanent oath of allegiance to the country where her family had found safe haven.
In the stands of Maimonides Park, she joined 250 people from 65 countries who were sworn in by judges wearing their formal black robes. Like Ms. Leveille, 39, many of the new Americans had waited more than a year to be invited for the naturalization ceremony since first submitting their applications.
She wiped away tears that day as she rose to deliver a speech about the security, the electoral voice and the responsibility that came with becoming a citizen. “It was a very, very long process, and it was very emotional,” she said.
Across the country, naturalization ceremonies are making a comeback, in parks, sports arenas and courthouses, after a long hiatus caused by Covid-19 lockdowns that suspended public gatherings, shuttered immigration offices and put thousands of citizenship applications on hold.
Nearly one million immigrants became citizens in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the most in almost 15 years and the third-highest number ever, according to a recent Pew Research analysis, demonstrating the increasing impact of immigration on who lives and works in the United States — and who votes.
“People have incentives to become citizens,” said Jeffrey S. Passel, a senior demographer at Pew Research, who co-wrote the study based on government data. “The numbers have not only rebounded. They are reaching levels we have rarely seen in our history.”
The total number of people seeking to become citizens is not reflected in the year-end data and is actually much higher because of the pileup of applications. Some 670,000 naturalizations are still pending.
This Land Becomes Their Land. New U.S. Citizens Hit a 15-Year High
Nearly one million immigrants became Americans in 2022 after the pandemic delayed the process and prevented hundreds of thousands of people from voting in the 2020 election.www.nytimes.com
Nearly 1 million new US citizens in 2022. This process takes YEARS and is completely by choice.
Again, more jingoistic retardation. More fucking propaganda.When I was active duty and stationed in the UK, I learned a hard lesson about citizenship vs culture, and came an admission about the US. The lesson came from a Frenchman. He said that the US is the only country, so far, that you can become an American. In other countries, you can have French or Spanish or Italian or German citizenship, but you will never be French, Spaniard, Italian, or German. If you want to know how is that possible, you might want to ask the Chinese guy who used the word 'nuanced' of the difference.
I guess it’s ok that the US military used napalm on 9 year old Vietnamese girls because your family was able to immigrate here and make money. That justifies everything.
Looks like someone does not understand the nuances of the issues he spewed. By the way, what you said about US also described your China.
like never.
If you want live out your forum handle, I will accommodate. There are many people who the US never bombed but many of their people became US citizens. Like China, for one example. The US never bombed China. In fact, the US in WW II defended China. Many Chinese came, and still coming, to the US. Craig Ferguson, a late night TV host, became a US citizen. John Oliver, another version of Ferguson, became US citizen. Is that too 'nuanced' for you?
spare me with all this bulsh*t- pay reparations first, increase wages to a solid level, make effective healthcare actually accessible, and pay off the fukn debt more- when all these happen ,i'll agree with you.When I was active duty and stationed in the UK, I learned a hard lesson about citizenship vs culture, and came an admission about the US. The lesson came from a Frenchman. He said that the US is the only country, so far, that you can become an American. In other countries, you can have French or Spanish or Italian or German citizenship, but you will never be French, Spaniard, Italian, or German. If you want to know how is that possible, you might want to ask the Chinese guy who used the word 'nuanced' of the difference.
Those are ethnicities, American isn’t an ethnicity. It’s an immigrants nation mix of different ethnicities. Like German American. Italian American, African American and so on.
If you want live out your forum handle, I will accommodate. There are many people who the US never bombed but many of their people became US citizens. Like China, for one example. The US never bombed China. In fact, the US in WW II defended China. Many Chinese came, and still coming, to the US. Craig Ferguson, a late night TV host, became a US citizen. John Oliver, another version of Ferguson, became US citizen. Is that too 'nuanced' for you?
Slightly going off topic but I have to agree NYC is overrated - been there and it’s an absolute nightmare.
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