It is fascinating how the process to become an American citizen happens. It is also amazing how people just got up and left everything they are used too to start a new life in America. Not all the members in the family went so it had to be really hard to let loved ones go to a new country with a chance that you will never see them again. I do not think I would ever be able to leave the life I used to to start all over and leave family members behind. It is great to know your ancestry and all about your background. It is a little challenging for me to do that because my grandfather was adapted and we do not know his whole background. Just because one comes to America does not mean they lose site of where they came from and who they really are. It is what is in their heart that they remember and cherish it.
When the speaker in the Video said that when he was little he thought America is the best. Being an American is the greatest thing ever. All kids are meant to believe that Americans are the greatest, There is no better country out there and that is why there is all this hate and discrimination between people. You have the people who think Americans are the best and no one else is good enough for anything.
Yes, it would be hard to leave part or all of your family behind, while going to a new place to build them a different kind of future. It is a natural phenomenon for a people to think of itself as the best. This is ethnocentrism, but it can also result, as you point out, in discrimination.
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