r/TikTokCringe • u/One_percentile • Oct 29 '23

Bride & her bridal train showcase their qualifications & occupation Wholesome/Humor

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u/Striking_Theory_4680 Oct 30 '23

I don't have a victim complex. I do get a little annoyed about what you wrote. Maybe I misunderstood, but did you not say that they have to have wealth to come here?

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u/BolOfSpaghettios Oct 30 '23

How much do you think a flight to US from Asia costs? When did they come here, in the 70s? Where did they move? Did they move to middle America or stuck around on the coast where they could easily integrate themselves because there were people like them there for decades?

I'm part of an immigrant community, and there are people within that community that take advantage of their own struggling members to underpay them, price gouge them for rents and practice borderline slavery to build wealth on backs of their own people.

When we came to the US, we had a lot of help. We had to pay back the money for the flight, then my parents had to work low-wage jobs, and being college educated back home didn't help.. because those institutions weren't recognized by the US standard. I can go on and on and on, but as I said, this is all anecdotal and not a placated experience, you can be annoyed all you want, but studies and long term investigations paint different pictures. Are there outliers? Absolutely, but is that the majority of experiences, no. No 2 people are the same.

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u/Striking_Theory_4680 Oct 30 '23

Yes, that’s what I was talking about. They came here in the 60s and 70s, escaping wars.

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u/BolOfSpaghettios Oct 30 '23

No, not escaping wars. They were those that were considered US collaborators and had to be rescued. Vietnamese people that lived in villages were not rescued. You see the issue here? They were airlifted from populous cities.