Most Americans don't even have a passport. There are immigrants who migrate out of desperation, and then there are those who do it out of luxury, and have far more opportunity than the local population. These two are at polar extremes.
That is true but that’s only for people who were born in NY. New Yorkers are not just people who were born there (NYC not NY state, which is very different and not what he refers to). Look up how many residents of NYC were born there vs those who migrated there. The guy is correct. Everyone (hyperbole of course) is an immigrant in NYC.
@mamumonkan it's just this obsession with NYC that has been gracing our cultural lives ad nausea ... what about his homeland Argentina ( also an immigrant country ... as is all of the American continent )
He deserves a MacArthur genius grant. Great writer.
Most Americans don't even have a passport. There are immigrants who migrate out of desperation, and then there are those who do it out of luxury, and have far more opportunity than the local population. These two are at polar extremes.
Vertrauen der Dänen ist weg
Everyone living here has not been an immigrant. Most people that were born here have close or distant relatives who immigrated here.
That is true but that’s only for people who were born in NY. New Yorkers are not just people who were born there (NYC not NY state, which is very different and not what he refers to). Look up how many residents of NYC were born there vs those who migrated there. The guy is correct. Everyone (hyperbole of course) is an immigrant in NYC.
@@losdosloswell I for one was born in NYC
I, too, was also born in NYC. From parents of immigrants, though.
ok so another voice of/for New York ... but why did he abandon Argentina !?! ( if not for socioeconomic reasons )
What a Swedish passport holder immigrant wee wee story! How to take his story seriously?
@mamumonkan
it's just this obsession with NYC that has been gracing our cultural lives ad nausea ... what about his homeland Argentina ( also an immigrant country ... as is all of the American continent )