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In reply to the discussion: So, what "Shithole" country did your ancestors come from? [View all]Hekate
(90,708 posts)The first one here was an English Protestant, a Dissenter, who went to Holland first, and sailed from Leyden to Massachusetts. The Irish came much later, and one was a Quaker tho the rest were Roman Catholic. The folks from Alsace were on my dad's side, and spoke German, tho his family line is also quite Irish. Proud to be American Mutts.
My husband is an immigrant from Belgium, a nice little country. But at the time his parents decided to come to the US (1953) the Holocaust that took most of their relatives in Russia, Austria, Poland, and Belgium was a very recent memory. You could say that for them as Jews, nice white Europe was one anti-Semitic shithole.
People are capable of change. Right now it looks like parts of Western and Northern Europe are doing quite a bit better than we Americans are -- good for them. We need to remember who we are supposed to be.