You wonder what sorts of information is out there to make people think that this country will be any different. That a community of their countrymen in the US will be somehow magically more tolerant than they would be at home.
It's a literal prisoner's dilemma. Where would you rather be persecuted and isolated? Here or in your native land? Chance of assault and murder being probably marginally less here, but isolation being sharply increased.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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12/19/2001: vive la france
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12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
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12/17/2001: new resolve
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12/17/2001: polluters ho!