Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘s***hole’ countries

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(02-02-2018, 04:34 PM)Dill Wrote: Southern Morocco is the closest I have come.  Funny, we have a Nigerian student in our student rental now. A really nice person who brought us a fish dish for Christmas.  She seems a little shy discussing her country, though.

By the way your post reminded me of a point made by the scholar of ethnic conflict, Donald Horowitz: "An Ibo may be . . . an Owerri Ibo or an Onitsha Ibo in what was the Eastern region of Nigeria. In Lagos, he is simply an Ibo. In London, he is a Nigerian. In New York, he is an African."   Where "those people" see a rich and layered diversity of peopleS on their own continent, including myriad tribal/national histories, we often don't.

Yes. And we often get videos on the media from "the backwoods" of these countries showing the latest terrible conflict happening there and we tend to think that that is how it is everywhere in that country. It's like someone from another country watching news from America about the Branch Davidian standoff and walking away with an idea that that is how it is everywhere in the U.S.

Nigeria has some large, sophisticated cities similar to our own:



That is Lagos.