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I did as you suggested and looked it up. It turns out you're right, that there is such a term as "second generation immigrants". But as the article notes "The term second-generation immigrant attracts criticism due to it being an oxymoron. Namely, critics say, a "second-generation immigrant" is not an immigrant, since being "second-generation" means that the person is born in the country and the person's parents are the immigrants in question. Generation labeling immigrants is further complicated by the fact that immigrant generations may not correspond to the genealogical generations of a family." So while there is such a term as "second generation immigrant" it doesn't mean "immigrant." Still, you were right that such a term exists and I was wrong.
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Here's the Oxford English dictionary definition of immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. "he's a recent immigrant to the US from Germany" https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+immigrant&oq=definition+of+immigrant&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDU4OTZqMGo0qAIBsAIB&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 So according to you a second generation immigrant is a kind of immigrant who isn't an immigrant.
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I'll tell you what. I'll apologize for the statement about Jamaicans if you apologize for claiming that you're not upset about it. Remember that this started when you made an over-the-top high dudgeon condemnation of Harris based on her father's condemnation.
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Luke Cage was a show that failed to draw much of an audience. As for Harris's joke, had she not made an explicit connection to Jamaica, would anyone have assumed her youthful consumption of marijuana was due to her Jamaican heritage? And you have to be a real pearl clutcher to be upset about a reference to smoking marijuana in one's youth in this day and age.
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Not obvious to me who has occasionally experienced such censorship which is their right to exercise. And if they were to allow people such as yourself to make unsupported assertions repeatedly, these pages would be abandoned by sensible people. I suggest you publish your assertions in the Journal of Because I Said So.
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Luke Cage was not a documentary. And this scholarly comment does nothing to establish that Americans associate a black person smoking marijuana with Jamaican culture. Even if Kamala wore dreadlocks, which she didn't, I doubt most Americans would make the connection. But since she didn't present herrself as culturally Jamaican, why would even Americans knowledgeable about Jamaica make the connection?
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I got news for you. This forum doesn't countenance unbridled free speech. And a good thing too. Otherwise, among other misfortunes,it would be overrun with people who make empty contrary to fact assertions citing themselves as authorities. There's a good reason the the rule stipulates links to credible sources. Your philological assertion would be better placed in the fiction forum.
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Really? In America when Americans see a black person smoking they think that said person most likely is a Jamaican? It is to laugh.
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And what has that got to do with your claim that lefties are 50% Marxist?
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Owners also want to control wages hours and standards. That leads to negotiations. But what has that got to do with unions controlling the means of production? As the word indicates, it's owners who own the business and ultimately control it.
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Your apparent indiscriminate awe of a Marxist scholar is in a way refreshing but also sad. That stereotype of Jamaicans may play in your brain or her father's, and it may have some traction in the UK, but it's not much of a thing in America.
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What have unions got to do with workers controlling the means of production? And what the unions have to do with your characterization of lefties as being 50% Marxist?