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Chinese Immigrants Reportedly Leaving U.S. Because the ‘American Dream is Dead’

Here’s a disturbing fact: “In the past five years, the number of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. has been on the decline, from a peak of 87,307 in 2006 to 70,863 in 2010,” reports The Atlantic.

Why is that?

Some might not like what they have to say.

Winnie Yu, a manager of a Chinatown career center in San Francisco, says that her clients have been leaving in pursuit of “the Chinese Dream.”

“Now the American Dream is broken,” one of her clients told her.

The client, Shen Ming Fa, who immigrated to the U.S. in the Fall of 2010 has “mostly been unemployed, picking up part-time work when he can find it.”

“In China, people live more comfortably: in a big house, with a good job. Life is definitely better there,” he said to Yu, counting out how many people he personally knows that immigrated back to China.

But then why is there an average of 493 mass-protests in China every day due to “a deep-seated unhappiness with abuses of power and officials who see themselves as above the law.”

Some would argue that it is difficult to believe that “life is definitely better there.”

Still, according to the data, there is a decline in immigration and permanent residency on the U.S.

Why? Apparently, it’s because of a lack of jobs and “incentives.”

Many Chinese immigrants who are educated overseas (often referred to as “sea turtles”) return to their home country for the promise of “financial aid, cash bonuses, tax breaks, and housing assistance.”

The Atlantic reports:

In 2008, Shi Yigong, a molecular biologist at Princeton, turned down a prestigious $10 million research grant to return to China and become the dean of life sciences at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. “My postdocs are getting great offers,” says Robert H. Austin, a physics professor at Princeton.

And this recent trend of moving back to China is not exclusive to the educated as “unskilled laborers are going back, too.”

According to the report, smaller Chinatowns have been emptying out for years. The 2010 U.S. census results revealed a steady decline in San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as a 9 percent decrease in Manhattan Chinatown’s population.

The article claims that the rise of China as an economic powerhouse, along with the slowing of immigration, may guarantee the disappearance of U.S. Chinatowns. Indeed, a Chinese economic boom would explain the 14 percent decline in America’s Asian population. They are simply going where there is work and money.

Furthermore, if the rise of the Chinese economy continues, writes The Atlantic’s Bonnie Tsui, “Chinatowns will lose their reason for being, as vital ports of entry for working-class immigrants. These workers will have better things to do than come to America.

However, there is something odd about this whole story. Given the widespread and well-documented discontent among Chinese workers, the aforementioned “financial aid, cash bonuses, tax breaks, and housing assistance” would have to be extraordinarily enticing to lure Chinese immigrants back home.

As reported earlier on The Blaze (via Business Insider), China has been dealing with some rough economic issues of their own. Consider these figures:

  • Since 2003, house prices in China have tripled
  • There are nearly 500 million who live on less than $2 a day

Not to mention some of these problems:

  • Around 140 million farmers have had their land forcibly seized by the government in the past 17 years
  • 16,810 Chinese coal miners have died in accidents in the past five years

Moreover, there are numerous reports that China’s elite wealthy, almost 60 percent, intend to migrate from China, with 40 percent claiming that the U.S. was their first choice, according to a report jointly released by the Hurun Report, which also publishes an annual China rich list, and the Bank of China.

“A separate study by U.S.-based Bain & Company and China Merchants Bank in April of 2,600 high-net worth individuals . . . found that about 60 percent of those interviewed had completed immigration applications to other countries or had plans to do so,” reports Asia Times.

Here’s a thought: perhaps Chinese immigrants in America actually believe that conditions are better in Communist China while those who are actually over there, the wealthy “leading better lives,” see conditions for what they are and they are trying to get out as fast as possible.

If this is true, and conditions are indeed bad enough to spark a mass exodus of the wealthy, then who is telling Chinese immigrants in the U.S. that conditions in China are better than in America?

Read the full Atlantic report here.

Comments (155)

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  • Cause4Liberty
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:45am

    …So much for Freedom of speech here on TheBLAZE… Did i offend some politcally correct a-hole? You know its funny, that theblaze censors posts and preaches freedom of speech. Not only that, but they enjoy the freedom of press. Hey Glenn, quit complaining about progressives, because you ARE one. Censor this, thats okay, at least someone had to read b4 deleting. Chinese peerple dook R jerbs, plain and simple.

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    • boltach
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:54am

      What are you rambling about?

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:08am

      CAUSE4LIBERTY, A number of have some problems when posting here. I often cannot find my posts but in no way feel that I was censored. More likely it is a software problem with The Blaze’s site, a problem with my computer, or any combination of both. Sometimes there are just glitches…get over it, you are not being picked on.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:53am

      “Chinese peerple dook R jerbs, plain and simple.”

      You should get out more. IF you can’t afford it join the military & get posted to South Korea, Japan or Europe. You might learn something.

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    • Cause4Liberty
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:16am

      I posted something earlier referencing a joke. It appeared under the comments for about 20mins. A quick F5 to refresh and it was gone. It doesnt bother me much (its not the 1st time this has occurred). Im just saying, its mighty progressive of theblaze to censor comments which are jokingly appropriate and doesnt portray vulgar profanity.

      @Walkabout: I would rather join a local/state militia then serve for the people of Japan, SKorea, or Asia, period. Would you fight for a corrupt empire pursuing corporate interests? How about for a natural resource we can harvest on our own land? I would serve IF it was for the defense of our liberty, republic, and constitution. If only that were the case, the problem would be solved aye.

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    • JMorcan
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:18am

      Life is *not* better there. Pollution is terrible, food is contaminated, the medical system is corrupt and inept, drugs are counterfeit, housing is almost unaffordable, etc. Granted, there may be more economic opportunities there now, but the quality of life is abominable. I know, I’ve been there.

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    • ThomasNast
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:10pm

      The Chinese people didn’t “took our jobs” liberty, Greedy corrupt get-even-with-em American progressives chased our employers away.

      IF it was just a matter of “labor costs” – our competition would be in Mexico, Haiti, and Central America. ANTI-capitalist, ANTI-America, ANTI-prosperity, PRO-union, PRO-lawyer, PRO-tax-and-regulation liberal policies are to blame for all of it.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:39pm

      I cannot imagine White Americans saying the same thing. It sucks here, so I’m moving to China! But the expat Chinese can go back to where they came from originally when things don’t quite measure up here. I’ll bet they were proud to call themselves Americans to their friends and family back home. Now that they’ve benefited from the US way of life, their now saying its no longer in THEIR best interests to stay in a country thats having difficult times. I thought the Chinese people were tougher than this but I guess they have truly become weakneed Americans afterall. Going gets tough so its time to bail out. Nice! Take your American education and go back to China, I‘m sure you’ll be welcomed warmly but never come back here again.

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    • Patriotic_Mercenary
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:51pm

      Are you referening a reply to ‘CLOUDOFWAR” that you posted at 0801? If you click on your name, you’ll see all of your posts. I saw three in this article alone.

      I’ve experienced this same issue with the site where it seems your post was deleted from the site. Nothing to worry about. There are multiple people posting and it gets lots in the mix sometimes.

      Here’s what I found of your earlier post:

      November 17, 2011 at 8:01am
      In reply to cloudsofwar.

      How can people work hard when there is no jobs? Would you bust your bottom to achieve minimum wage salaries? What would you do, if you cant get a job, no matter how hard you work at it. Nowadays, finding a good job is a job in itself. The American dream isnt dead or broken, its becoming impossible to achieve when being suppressed by a facist gov’t and a Federal Reserve System that you pay inflationary tax to.

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    • ElaineA
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:06pm

      Really. What are you talking about?

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    • charleyrocks
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:26pm

      he does not censor people it just gets lost in the thousands of posts!

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    • ChillyinAlaska
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:28pm

      Yes, it’s not free trade when they give us cheap junk and they get our factories and jobs. Then they steal our intellectual property with impunity, while our country does nothing to protect it. In fact, I feel the money China “loans” us is actually bribes to government to PROTECT THEIR JOBS, and this can be shown by all the regulations Obama has imposed on our business to keep them from being able to compete with the Chinese. Meanwhile, Obama takes the money the Chinese “loaned” to the government and transfers it to his cronies by calling it “stimulus” or “green energy” loans and grants, then the cronies hold fundraisers and kickback his cut in the form of “campaign” donations. AMERICA WISE UP! Trade is when goods are exchanged, it’s not trade when goods are sold and the money is “loaned to the government, but actually used to bribe the government to screw over Americans in favor of the foreign competitor.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:14pm

      Cause4 is right. The Blaze is a bunch of NAZI-like censors. God forbid somebody doesn’t like your post for whatever reason. All they have to do is hit the “REPORT POST” button and the Blaze goons will gleefully delete it, all while singing songs and holding hands. Pffft

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:50pm

      “In China, people live more comfortably: in a big house, with a good job. Life is definitely better there,”

      LOL! Okay, yeah, have fun.

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  • hi
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:39am

    Sounds like they are only trying to get ‘incentives’ to stay.

    I’d rather have the worst job here with freedom than the best one there.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:03am

      I’ve seen it first hand where someone is granted citizenship and then they work on getting their parents and grandparents citizenship and instantly start collecting social security. This social program is not working. I get to work my whole life to pay for the social security of an immigrant that hasn’t worked a day in my country, then, when it’s time for me to collect, there is nothing there. I hate socialism!

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    • GUT_CHECK
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:55am

      ME THINKS
      since chinese food populairity is in decline, and mexican food restaurants are on the rise, chinese see their markets drying up and sense the “dream is over”… but maybe its only over for them

      the very very poor chinese family in my town just sent there beautiful daughter to college on a full-ride scholarship.
      her dream is just beginning ;-)

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:09am

      JLGunner

      Chain migration makes no sense where people older than 50 can come to America with little or no money. The economics just doesn’t work.

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:18pm

      China has great opportunities and it is not just Asians returning, but many Americans are moving to China. In many ways China has more business freedoms than the USA. China is a vibrant and happening place. I have many associates who do business in China and are raising their kids in China to teach them the Chinese language. They are way ahead of us.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:42pm

      Now if we can figure out how to get rid of the illegal immigrant welfare , resource sucking third world turds !!!!

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  • teebubba
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:39am

    The only reason China is an economic powerhouse is that they have 6 times the population of any other nation except India. And the recession has hit China too. You just do not hear about it because the government tries very hard to control their image. For 85 % of its people it is still a third world country.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:35am

      They are an economic powerhouse because we buy more chinese goods than American due to our assinine tax policies giving tax breaks for shipping manufacturing work overseas! Maybe the chinese are leaving because they know something we don’t? Ask them what those mysterious structures in the desert are!

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  • Mary Just
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:30am

    I see all these people complaining about not having jobs or the poor economy. What did you cowards expect when you let 40 million third world poor break into your country lowering your wages, taking your jobs, collecting benefits making your country go broke and all the crime and third worldism that comes with it. Still not a word about deporting even one of them. Live with what you let happen cowards because soon there will be 100 million illegals.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:07am

      Amen, but they are getting what they want, liberals want everyone but them poor and pregnant, they are just to stupid to realize that their goal isn’t obtainable because there are millions of lazy stupid people just like them on this planet.

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    • 66suriv6
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:24am

      I do not remember the Rep, congress or Pres. bush touching the Ill. issue either . Want to know why ? Cause American businesses like to hire cheap ill. imm. to do work for bad wages and no benefits…If the %1 or “job creators” didn’t hire them, they wouldn’t be here. That is why the rep. didn’t touch it, becuase their business buddies didn’t want to lose their cheap source of labor. Want to get rid of ill.? Just jail any Amer. who hires them.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:21am

      Actually since our glorious 14th amendment, there will still be 40 million illegals but their 120 million children will be US Citizens……just saying :) Apply THAT amendment to what it was meant for and no more “anchor babies”!

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    • EEJASP
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:24am

      To MARY JUST – Are not these immigrants traitors to their homelands? Why do we praise them as being such great people. They could have stayed in their own countries and strived to make them better. Right?

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    • JustMeHere_01
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:44am

      @66suriv6

      If you have ever watched CSPAN you would have noted that the Republicans had an immigration bill and the Democrats filibustered and would not allow a vote to come to the floor.

      I used to watch CSPAN a lot when the Republicans had the majority in both houses during Pres. Bushs’ term in office. The Democrats used most of their time on the floor to critized Pres. Bush and little to do with the bill being debated on the floor.

      When the Democrats gained the majority in both houses for the last two years of Pres. Bushs’ term in office it became unbearable to continue watching CSPAN. The Demorat representatives are so full of hate and venom that it is disgusting.

      Same thing when trying to get someone confirmed to fill a position. The Democrats would use their time bashing Pres. Bush instead of discussing the merits of the person being nominated for the position. I know because I have listened to more than I could stomach.

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    • EEJASP
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:46am

      Immigrants are traitors to their homelands. Right? They could stay in their homelands and try to improve them instead of running away from them.

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    • JustMeHere_01
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:53am

      @66suriv6

      One other thought. There needed to be 60 votes for the bill to end debate and send it to the floor for a vote to override a filibuster.

      There were only 56 votes to send the bill forward which was not enough.

      Same thing with the energy bill that the Republicans tried to move forward. Not sure of the votes but the Democrats filibustered that as well. Their agenda was to block anything that the Republicans attempted to move on just as the either house in power does on legislation that they disagree with.

      The political system needs to be fixed first and foremost.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:25am

    Someone finally told them the trans-continental railroad was completed?

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  • notjoshing
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:21am

    Most Chinese I know are hard-working individuals striving to excel and to raise good families. They are people who often have overcome significant obstacles to get here. They are the kinds of people we should want to have in our country, not people to whom we should say “Good riddance,“ as ”Bakko Bomma” did. They are not “rats” or “Communists” or “illegals” as they’ve been called here, at least no more than any other ethnic group. They are people struggling to give their children the best lives they can. I’d rather have them as fellow citizens than those who are so quick to cast aside any who differ from or disagree with them.

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    • LMW
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:44am

      I agree, I know many Chinese and they along with their other Asian counterparts are the hardest working, honest and family orientated Imigrants I know. They have the desire for exceptional schooling and do well in all areas of Medicine and its related fields as well as the Sciences. These are the new Americans and it is a shame that they have yet to learn how to be a polictical power house. They could and can make this country a better place as we have let it go to hell with the Lib crap. Instead of working for the Good Life we expect the Government to give it to us forgetting we are the Government and it is our tax money they spend like a drunk. I get so mad when some idiot says It’s okay, it is the Government who is paying. As to the fear mongering that “They” will take over America that is a bunch of bull as we are all a mix of races and origins and they have already started to intregrate into our mix. It is the ones in power in our Government who start these fears as they know when they wake up they will have a raging Dragon on their hands and they will be sent packing. I am for legal imigration as I believe they are the salvation of this country as we now have no morals or work ethics. It is bad sign when they think it is getting worse here then else where to acheive their dreams. Small business is the backbone of this country. Our government is destroying them by high taxes, forced unions and regulations. Soon nothing but the new Corgov will run any business.

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  • Fonz777
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:18am

    The American dream is being held hostage by fixed politics. Government is using the law to strangle the success of honest people but instead supporting those gaming the system and living idly on the dole. These “leaders” buying votes are buying votes with coupons to destroy the country. Those accepting the dole are digging a big hole for themselves. We are watching our country go down the drain fellow Americans. Good is called bad – bad is called good. Evil is in high places.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:07am

    “Chinese live in a big house, with a good job” – That just doesn’t ring true to me. That statement just doesn’t mesh with the reports I see & hear, but I’ve never been to China.

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    • SmallGovBigGuns
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:03am

      if your not in the big beautiful cities… your in the third world there

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    • Shellback
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:16am

      I had a Chinese roommate when I was in Hawaii. He was from Hong Kong. He stated that two familes with a total of 12 people lived in a two room, one bathroom, 1000 sq ft apartment there. And that was the norm not the exception.

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    • cynthiaaknox
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:44am

      I think this guy had a PhD. So, seems consistent: Communist country pays big $$ for those folks – and they take it, because those elites aren’t smart enough to hustle in a capitalist society. They get jealous of the better pay that a business person (who really hustles) makes. IDK, just my opinion.

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    • thecoolblueduck
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:56am

      SmallGovBigGuns is some-what right. I have been to China lots of times to visit the in-laws. The places that are showing promise are getting better. Also they are building new larger and way nicer cities near these cities. I am reminded of the ghost cities that are being built in China the Beck reported on a long time ago. China is building them because they know people will be moving in. They know it is not other Chinese that are going to be moving in but immigrants from other countries including the US. From what I know from my in-laws that work or have worked in certain positions in the Chinese government is to, keep the exchange rate controlled at a predetermined level so that the average middle class American family can live like the upper class, offer high paying jobs to fill these homes. Then after a percentage is hit with incoming of immigration, the Chinese government would adjust the exchange rate to the dollar so that they are near equal to the US.

      Now the third world part of China, they still hold on to the communal idea of communities, a modified plan of Mao’s idea. With little or no plan for improvement at this time because it is not worth it yet investment wise to improve. And lots of people are OK with this in China. I said that they are crazy. I was told that since I’m not Chinese that I won’t get it.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:06am

      I’ve lived in China on two separate occasions and in different provinces. “Big houses” are a rarity. Here is a list of other rarities that I’ve noticed during my stay in that country:

      - lawns
      - carpet
      - comfortable furniture
      - food that doesn’t make you have the runs
      - mass produced cheap merchandise…..wait, nevermind

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  • Brontefan
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:06am

    OMG, some intelligence still left in the US! The federal government CAN NOT provide the American Dream. It must be earned. What is now happening in the USA is a “fundamental transformation” into Marxism and if this is what’s here…. why bother? They could have that in China.

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    • cromag11b
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:49pm

      Then why is the country with the best shot at the ‘American Dream’ a Marxist one to start with?
      The game got fixed in pursuit of higher corporate profits.

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  • Bakko Bomma
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:56am

    Good riddance.

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    • Zstimman
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:05am

      Why good riddence? Because they are asian or just more successful than you?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:05am

      I say deport anyone that put their people origin before America. african american,asian american,hispanic American, european american we need to end multiculturalism and just be American. If you identify yourself from as anything other than 100% American GET THE HE77 OUT.
      my ancestor were French,Heshian,English,and native America I’M 400% AMERICAN
      I LOVE MY COUNTRY IDENTIFY WITH MY COUNTRY AND THE FREEDOMS OUR FOUNDERS FOUGHT BLEED AND DIED FOR.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Smithclark

      I don’t think there is a single thing wrong with acknowledging your heritage. I am an American of Irish descent. My wife is an American of Italian and Polish descent. You state that you are of French, English, Hessian and Native American descent. There is a laundry list of countries that current Americans can call their heritage.

      We assimilate into the melting pot. We become hybrids of descent like my wife and you. We become just plain Americans.

      There is one glaring difference between you, my family and other immigrants and African Americans. They don’t have a country identity, a common religion, or a common heritage. They only have a racial identity. That difference is significant. It is the difference that prevents us and them from identify them as just plain Americans.

      I can’t tolerate racism. I believe to be couched in fear. I have met too many fine soldiers growing up and during my time in the Army to believe that African Americans are “bad and lazy”. I had my life saved by a black NCO.

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:48am

    This is just one of many signs of a declining superpower.

    America is a great place if you are already rich. China is a great place if you want to become rich.

    America is a great place if you enjoy reading about freedom and liberty in history books, China is a great place if you dream of living free in liberty in the future.

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    • Locked
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:06am

      “America is a great place if you are already rich. China is a great place if you want to become rich.”

      Pretty much this. China is the equivalent of western boomtowns before the US stretched from sea to shining sea. You can get rich quick, but it’s not nearly as comfortable to live there while you do it. The idea is to make your money, then move somewhere better in a few years; but a lot of people will never strike it rich and will be stuck there. Oh well.

      Still, I know several of my classmates from university went to China to ride out the boom. Some of them are millionaires now; some of them are stuck teaching English as a second language to the kids from rich families.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:13am

      This is sad, and it’s even more disgusting to hear the bigots and racists say stupid garbage like “Go back to China” and “Good riddance”.

      I‘m convinced that they’re some pathetic people who make comments like that. Likely troll agents.

      ***WARNING***

      America doesn’t like racists and bigots. You are a minority. We (freedom loving people who aren’t racists and bigots) don’t want you here, and would like YOU to leave and go back to your country of origin, and take your disgusting, tribalistic, racist, bigotted garbage with you.

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:50am

      Amen

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  • ares338
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:48am

    This is the only good thing that’s come out of this screwed up situation. Now if we can just piss the Mexicans off we’ll be good to go.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:05am

      that was my first thought. But the real issue America needs hard working, liberty driven individuals… the chinese have their struggle we have ours. the good people of US need to rally around good people

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    • Pat Alexander
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:54am

      Excellent!!

      R.O.T.F.L.

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    • Yeah_Buddy
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:48pm

      Mass self-deportation is a silver lining to the otherwise sad decline of the USA.

      Entitlement mentality, marxist teachers, $15 T in debt and growing daily, over-regulations, loss of freedom, divided people, tax increases, union domination….shoot I’d consider moving if there was a better place to go and raise a family.

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  • Turtleman
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:44am

    It is sad when immigrants who came here for a better financial future feel that we are no longer the great force. As I see it we have a chance in 2012 to try and correct this direction. If Obummer gets elected again I believe “The American Dream” may be over.

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    • Tom K
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:07am

      @TURTLEMAN: You’ve hit the nail on the head. America WAS the shinning city on the hill, but since the Progressive / Socialist / Communist / movement has moved forward, America is less attractive to good, hard working legal immigrants. We are attracting the TAKERS of the world but not many of the CONTRIBUTORS. Pretty much everyone in D.C. must be fired, recalled or impeached and/or prosecuted for treason.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:36am

    the american dream is what YOU make of it.i know i’m living it through hard work. no one is going to hand it to you. if you don’t like that join the OWS mob. and if life is so good in china, why come here? could it be Freedom? yeah life is good in china thats why cattle feed in dumps and most people earn 2 dollars a day.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:46am

      Ummm bye , don’t let the door hit you on the way out… Now more work for Americans .. Now all we have to do is rid the nation of the illegal mexicans and we will be on track..

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    • hifi74
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:48am

      I think the bigger problem here is this admin is making it impossible for people to achieve the American dream. Out of their misguided sense of fairness. Everyone deserves the opportunity to succeed not the guarantee you’re going to achieve.

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    • Cause4Liberty
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:01am

      How can people work hard when there is no jobs? Would you bust your bottom to achieve minimum wage salaries? What would you do, if you cant get a job, no matter how hard you work at it. Nowadays, finding a good job is a job in itself. The American dream isnt dead or broken, its becoming impossible to achieve when being suppressed by a facist gov’t and a Federal Reserve System that you pay inflationary tax to.

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  • grudgywoof
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:32am

    It’s not dead in Tennessee “yet”. Go back to China and live in a place where you can’t worship God the way you want or even say what you think without having the SS come knock on your door. If a big house is all you care about then get out…..quickly. We didn’t need you to start with.

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    • gwssacredcause
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:08am

      I hope you right about that but when I see articles from Chattanooga no Coyotes with Chinese illegal aliens in the car and articles on the sale of drivers licenses to illegal aliens I have to wonder how far behind is Tennessee? The large amount of illegal aliens hired over American citizens in the nursery industry has to make regular citizens wonder.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:17am

      Worship in China is not much different than worship in America. The way the atheists & libs want it, you can’t say if you believe X then you should vote for candidate Y instead of candidate Z.

      That is the way it is in China. You can worship, but it has to be a generic worship such be good.

      If it got down to particulars such as abortion is bad & so you should vote for a certain candidate, it would be considered illegal in China & the U.S. There is no doubt to the veracity of the previous sentence. If a church pastor is said voter for McCain rather than Obama because of the abortion issue the separation of church & state mafia & the libs would be all over that pastor.

      No difference between China & USA except a small degree. We can resists a little. After the next election?

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  • arfarb55
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:25am

    Perhaps they will take the ILLEGAL ALIANS with them.

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:24am

    good.. take obuma and the rest of the illegals with you as you LEAVE!

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:22am

    Omama has made America a 3rd World country. The rats are leaving the ship……

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:18am

    If people are going back to China it will be for one main reason, under Obama we are becoming worse than the mainland Chinese government ever has been.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:11am

      This was baracks plan all along. He said it loud and clear during his run for presidency. Nobody would listen to the words, they just saw “the first black president”.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:31am

      I see more Buddhists monks in China over time. Church growth is also up. You can talk about doing good. You just can’t talk about policy. If your belief system lead you to favor certain policies over others you cannot utter a word about it. If you are religious that is.

      Same in China as it is in America.

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  • Rorchach
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:15am

    The american dream burns brightly in Americans, let the communists go home and take a OWS protester with them.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:18am

      Oh America is in trouble. But now use your brain to determine why they are really going back.

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  • Mil-Dot
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:14am

    I totally agree with them. The American dream IS broken. You have rampant, flagrant political corruption, the cops protecting that same corruption, you have to have a permit for this, inspection for that, fee here, fee there, lazy welfare goons sucking the life out of the workers, etc, etc. . Yep, they are right. Now, get the hell out of here and go back to China.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:02pm

      Neoconservative, racist, bigotted people like some of the peole posting on this thread HELPED break America.

      That’s why they click their heels when they see minorities who came here for freedom leave. They don’t care. They didn‘t want them here anyway and are glad to see America decline because they think they’ll remain.

      Those fools are going down too.

      Just look at it. The same type of people who would have stood by and watched slavery (because it wasn’t them in chains) and who fought for slavery to remain are the same type of people yelling “yippee” to the the Asian immigrants leaving, and they’re the same people willing to be groped and molested by TSA for their false sense of security, and they’re the same people who fund the police state overall, and they’re the same people who support warmongers, the same people that some have awakened and are now whining about the TSA treating them like cops have treated minorities in the ghetto for decades.

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  • loriann12
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:11am

    This ought to make Obama really happy. He hates the American dream and loves China.

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:17am

      Obama is the worst enemy the USA has ever known. Whatever it takes, he has to be removed from office.

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  • old white guy
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:09am

    maybe they are returning to china to avoid multicultualism.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:08am

    Maybe they just prefer to live in their homeland, I know I do.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:48am

      However in my homeland, little girls are not run over like a skunk in the road and left to die as people walk by. If that’s what you want, go home.

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Good. If they go home and the Illegals go home we can have our dream back.

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    • Agnes
      Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:23pm

      Feel free to go whenever you want and take along with you all the millions of ILLEGAL people that are “milking” the American dream. I promise I won’t cry!

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  • AOL_REFUGEE
    Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:05am

    The American Dream is dead? Was it ever really alive for more than one brief moment in time?

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