To:Native born Americans,Truthfully answer please:?

Question

Are you ever secertly jealous of (legal) immigrants who have found the "American Dream"?
Most of us were raised to believe we would have it better than our parents.Do you ever feel the system has let you down.
People from other countries sometime find the road to the American Dream much easier than we do with all of our advantages of knowing English and being on our home turf.
Just wondering...

Answer 1

I'm Jealous of those ho worked hard and legally, and manage to do well, but I understand they earn it. I worked for those who did make it, by breaking the law. I am angry not jealous. They feel like using the advantage that our cuntry give, but refuse to deal with the disadvantage, like our pesky labor laws.

I worked hard to get where I am, and there are those who are jealous that I make more. That is no big deal. Success always comes with jealous people.

People Are jealous because they believe they are better,and don't understand how they got there. Some immigrants make money because they have money to start with. They got connections. They have the drive shown by their ability to get here. They have cultural difference that would give them an advantage like strong family with the money associated with it.

I on the hand am Jealous because I am a selfish self centered man.

Answer 2

No, not jealous. System has not let native Americans down, we are just tired of being used by illegals. I have no problem with legal immigrants, the illegals are criminals. There is no way a Immigrant from any place, could feel as good as we do about our country. We are the American Dream, the American people.

Answer 3

why would any one be jealous of some one who makes it better then the next. i actually admire those people who make it big. it's not their fault i haven't made it rich yet. they went after what they wanted and got it. I'm just ticked about the illegals coming here and taking what American born and legal immigrants have built. this country was built by legal citizens and Americans who fought hard to make this country what it was 7 years ago before the illegal invasion. illegals have done nothing but strip this country and make it look trashy.

Answer 4

Truthfully, no. For every legal (or illegal, for that matter) immigrant to the U.S. who succeeds in finding the elusive "American Dream," there are millions more who remain in their home countries and never have the opportunity to achieve that dream. Legal immigration to the United States is extremely difficult and there are a lot of legal and bureaucratic hurdles that must be jumped in order to make it here in the first place. After that there's still the issue of learning the language, getting used to the culture, finding living wage employment, and just generally learning to maneuver within the U.S. system. I'm not jealous of anyone who has to leap all these hurdles, especially since I have felt first-hand what it can be like to try to figure out the way things work in a foreign country during my time living abroad. I'm also not jealous of someone who has to learn English well enough not only to do the shopping and pay the electric bill but also in many cases to go to college or earn an advanced degree at an English-language U.S. university. Despite what some militant pro-English-language advocates in the U.S. would have us believe, learning a language to this advanced level is an arduous and not at all easy task. I know that personally, despite years of studying Chinese and French, I am not ready to attend college or earn an advanced degree in an institution where the language of instruction is French or Chinese. In my opinion, anyone who can successfully navigate the plethora of obstacles on the road to the "American Dream" fully deserves her or his success.

I think it's true that in the U.S. we're raised to think we'll have better, more successful lives than our parents, but I also think that to some degree we've been raised with a degree of cynicism alongside this. On the one hand we receive the message that everything will come up roses, but on the other hand we learn to view this country as a "system" which is in some cases set up to make us fail. Whether this ill-intentioned "system" actually exists or not isn't really the point here, since, as I pointed out, a separate "system" exists for those seeking to legally immigrate, and this system is arguably much more difficult to successfully navigate. Yes, sometimes I feel like my school district should have offered better math classes or that I'm oppressed by an enormous student loan debt (both true, by the way), but these sorts of concerns pale in comparison to those of would-be legal immigrants who often come from absolutely wretched school systems and must, in many if not most cases, pay their full way through college if attending a U.S. institution, since international students are often ineligible to receive the financial aid that is available to us native-born U.S. citizens.

I don't think it's a matter of "the road to the American Dream" being "much easier" for immigrants. I think it's simply that so many potential immigrants get weeded out along the way before they even arrive at U.S. shores, a process we don't even see, that makes it appear that way to us. The top however many percent actually make it here, so it's only the very dedicated, very hardworking, very fortunate legal immigrants that actually get the chance to settle down in the U.S. and try to achieve the "American Dream." Is it sometimes easier for these people once they get here than it is for us just starting out of high school or college? Possibly, since they might be older and have more life experience, and since they've already gone through the crucible of immigrations bureaucracy, learning English to an acceptable degree, learning about the United States, etc. They also might already know a trade or have skills learned in their countries of origin that they might be able to apply here, unlike most U.S. high school graduates.

Answer 5

No... But here I go with my rant... I may not have acheived the "American Dream", but at least when people look at me they see a person, not wonder where I'm from. Whether it's said or not, immigrants are looked down at... That alone is worth not having the "American Dream".

Answer 6

American Indians are a people that lost its land to the gun, stolen by the USA A corporation not a country. You say you lived the American dream, so you are a slave and live in a housing project or you are a slave to the credit card and inflated homes, cars and gasoline. See you USA people have nothing, if you loose your jobs to the Mexicans you live on the street and least I know how to survive. It's only a matter of time before the USA is in another dispersion, no money for Internet or war craft, what will you do.

Answer 7

Why be jealous many legal immigrants work hard and at long hours of their day. They deserve to be congratulated, while our natural born Americans are getting lazier with each generation, should be kicked in the behind.

Answer 8

Well I wasnt born in America but I was raised here. I don't get jealous but I wish I had the drive that some people do to succeed. I mean I am happy with the life I have but it could be better. I could be rich.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

No, I don't envy them. If they work hard and make it happen, then great for them. I'd like it better if they shared their secret with me, but I don't envy those who earn their way to the top. I just can't stand those that get it all handed to them easily and then rub it in everyone's faces, but that goes for immigrants and native borns too.