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HereSince1628

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13. I don't know about you, but that happens for me...we call them family get togethers
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 07:08 PM
Dec 2015

Everyone in my family looks, dresses and talks pretty much the same.

If your fear was eastern Europeans and your search image had you noticing eastern European sorts of people, stocky, jowly and with bushy eyebrows who otherwise keep to themselves... I'm sure you'd be noticing us.

People find what they look for. Sometimes because they see what they want to see, and sometimes because they interpret what they want from what they want to see.

It's a shaky business, and I'm mostly skeptical and quite cynical about xenophobic trends, even though once in a while when you think a foreigner is up to no good, they are.

But then much of the time, the nativists who are -really- dangerous are the ones pointing fingers and diverting attention from an internal problem.

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