America Changed Me and Europe Was Wrong [video]

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bottle_roket•about 1 hour ago

We really just need to figure out the paying for healthcare thing, and then get money out of politics, then America is undeniably the best place in the world to live.

A few more trains would be nice too.

thisisnotauser•about 1 hour ago

As an American, I always see this kind of "cautious" foreign culture he talks about in shows and anime and I always thought it was meant to be a commentary of specific characters in the show, but everyone is like that? That's... kinda sad. I can only hope our good vibes here stateside become more contagious over time =]

zhoBEENG•about 3 hours ago

Everyone I know who has immigrated to America talks some version of this.

Guestmodinfo•about 3 hours ago

'emigrated to'.

Sorry for correcting grammar. But being from one of the previous colonies, one desires to be a master of English and help others also to master it.

We emigrate to a country from our own country.

And other people immigrate into our country from some outside country.

dlcarrier•about 2 hours ago

It looks like "immigrated to" is now more popular in American English (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%...), but not in British English (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%...).

keepamovin•about 3 hours ago

I prefer 'migrated' for exactly that reason - strips all the annoying modifying prefixes that can trip you up. More flexible word, less radicals! ;)

It's funny to me people are only discovering this about America now whereas a whole generation of 1st gen parents of current Americans discovered it in earlier waves, the tech waves, etc.

ButlerianJihad•about 1 hour ago

No idea where you got those definitions.

An immigrant is one who arrives and moves into a place or country.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immigrate

An emigrant is one who leaves and moves out of a place.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emigrate

This distinction is very clear and has really never been a problem for people who understand language. The English Wikipedia has somehow managed to fuck it up beyond all recognition, so congratulations! You're one of Today's Lucky 10,000!

archonis•about 3 hours ago

I wonder if rural farm town to Miami is the real story here vs. any sort of national culture clash.

America Changed Me and Europe Was Wrong [video]

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