danny wrote: Thank you for sharing your story and knowledge, PILMAN. Very interesting.
My wife's story is far more recent interesting, my wife if anything would probably have a more valid reason to feel discrimination but ironically, her story is quite different,
As I mentioned in the thread, my wife is from colombia, we ended up getting married and the perception amongst others was that she merely was getting married for a green card or somehow she would receive automatic citizenship and so the perception from both hardline right wingers and authoritarian left wingers were ironically very ignorant about the entire process, anything about colombia. I had individuals who thought colombia was part of Mexico or was a city in Brazil, some thought it was in Central America north of panama not realizing it is a South American country.
Our process took a year, my wife learned English fluently through google translate and I taught her as well. Colombians are not well received in Spain and in the U.S. They are automatically viewed as if they could be drug mules so they are treated with suspicion at customs.
After thousands of dollars and finally getting approved for everything, it entitled my wife the ability to work. My wife holds the same views as me and feels that people coming to the U.S. Should go through the legal process, learn English and not isolate but be a part of the American communities.
Believe it or not, the racism isn't coming from gringos, the Hispanic customs agents generally are much harder on other Hispanics illegally coming into the country whereas the gringos (not offensive word in colombia) treat the Colombians much better in general. The reason is that sometimes populations coming into the country attempt to assimilate to much that they feel they need to discriminate against their own ethnic group to be accepted or start to look down on others due to seeing the American culture and lifestyle as superior.
My wife feels upset when she sees other Hispanics in the country who do not want to learn English or who do not follow the laws because she feels that she worked hard to do so and that making no effort is a lack of respect of the nations customs just as I would be expected to speak Spanish in colombia.
At the same time, there is some bias, most Americans cannot differentiate Colombians from other Hispanics and cluster them in as Mexicans, so people assume my wife is somehow illegally here when that is not the case, or make cocaine jokes, she has had rude comments that she should leave the country or that she is stealing American jobs. What I find ironic about this is my wife is one of the hardest workers I know doing thing way outside the scope most workers would go through, while most workers have a entitlement personality and would rather be browsing Facebook, my wife will find reasons to continue working and be efficient at it.
She does not like to be used for political agendas, some illegal immigrants believe my wife has a civic duty as a Hispanic (as do some other leftist liberals) that she needs to support illegal immigration or reforming laws, my wife has been told she should stop acting traditional and should cut her hair and stop cooking my dinner and become like other American women, the fact is my wife has the freedom to choose what she wants, and for both racists and social justice warriors to a use that and use her is sickening.
I can tell you that my wife tends to be very conservative, she likes the same things I do, she speaks practically fluent English and she is intelligent yet beautiful at the same time, when people perceive the idea she can't speak for her self and they represent her or they think they know more about colombia than she does, it drives her crazy.
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(whatever i say, is down for anybody to respond to, to discern, or to ignore..but it's ALWAYS in the fuckin public arena when it comes to public issues. not hiding, and if i fuck up, i stand up and take accountability. of course, if there's a non-related issue you wanna beam my way, do it! off-subject shit for my pms. on subject shit for public.) 
