I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I’ve seen a few anti-immigrant comments pop up around here that have been upvoted and they’ve made me pretty sad.

      This thread makes my immigrant ass happy though so thank y’all.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I immigrated to the US when I was too young to make that decision myself. Now I’m immigrating to another country. I literally don’t know what it’s like to not be an immigrant, and I’m tired of receiving nothing but hate for it. At least my new city is more welcoming.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    152·
    6 hours ago

    Some of those who burn crosses
    Are the same that love kebab bosses

  • Farid@startrek.website
    7·
    5 hours ago

    Fun fact for you: All döner is kebab, but not all kebab is döner. Because döner is just a type of kebab (grilled meat on a stick). Which also means that shawarma’s status as kebab is questionable, as it’s usually roasted or pan fried, as far as I know.

    • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Pan fried shawarma is something Im still trying to get used to. The Lebanese Shawarma places in Ottawa all stack the chicken on a stick rotisserie and it is cooked exactly like the lamb or beef kebabs, they then slice thin portions off of it just the same.

      It wasnt until I moved out west that I ever saw Shawarma done any other way, and everything out here has been disappointing by comparison.

  • Reetsh@lemmy.ml
    25·
    8 hours ago

    Completely agree! The concept of Culinary Diplomacy is actually practiced by a few countries around the world and is often implemented in partnership with emigrants from those nations. South Korea did this with their “Kimchi Diplomacy” back in 2009 and it was considered very successful. It is one of the reasons Korean food became so popular here in the U.S. around then. Culinary Diplomacy

    • lunarul@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 hours ago

      Not sure where you got that idea. Pizza was brought to America by Italian immigrants, but it has existed for long before that. Modern pizza is well known to have originated in Naples.

      • Professorozone@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Hmmm, I’ve “known” that for a long time. I know pizza in Italy is not the same as pizza in America and is typically eaten with a fork and knife. Maybe that’s what I was thinking or maybe I’m confusing it with a different supposedly Italian food.

  • yucandu@lemmy.world
    104·
    7 hours ago

    The problem is when immigrants from countries with lower labour standards and poorer conditions are effectively used as “scabs”, to suppress wage growth and unionization. And I fear the capitalists who benefit from this are pushing the “you just hate immigrants” narrative to protect it.

      • yucandu@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Lobby the government to stop doing that. In the meantime, teach them their rights, how to unionize, help them with food security and finding a place to live, so that they aren’t in such a precarious position that makes exploitation so profitable.

        • kerntucky@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          31 minutes ago

          I think a very important step is to start holding businesses responsible for employing undocumented migrants and immigrants. Stop punishing the employees and punish the ones breaking the law by employing them. They’d lobby so hard to make the path to citizenship easier.

  • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    3 hours ago

    I can enjoy homophobic attacks with threats of punishments for apostasy,

    Even witnessing with my own eyes an acid attack in Clapham, London.

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 hours ago

      The cool part is, that’s just due to extremists, not immigrants. Planned parenthoods were bombed by white right assholes. Try better next time.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 hours ago

    100% agree. The biggest overlooked benefit of immigrant culture is the mirror it offers us on our own practices and beliefs. When seeing what others do it gives us the chance to reaffirm that our actions are correct, or even more important, modify our actions for the better by adopting their view on something. We get to cherry pick the best parts of cultures around the world and discard bad practices that are perhaps “traditional” because we see our immigrants have a better approach. In the end of either we get the chance to be the best versions of ourselves with constant exposure to new ideas and ways of doing things.

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    I fucking love the diversity of the United States. It enriches us all.