What should we call the Lebanese who come to America and desperately try to pass for white, the ones whose lower jaw twists at a 45 deg angle to get just right twang, and keep that same twang when they go back to speaking Lebanese?
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Welcome. We should call them welcome. I cannot begin to imagine the stress of being a non-white immigrant trying desperately to fit into current-day America.
No one understands me!
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I understand where you’re coming from. I’m Cuban-American. In my neck of the woods, Cuban-Americans who behave like that are called Republicans.









