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that's a pretty clear list of what many people consider an idealized middle class lifestyle in the mentioned country

Read again Dan. Irony alert. My first trip to US to see my wife's family I used a couple of times "he's taking the piss" and "he can't remember a thing, cos he was really pissed". Met with blank confusion.

It's little hard to integrate when you are constantly told to' fuck off you don't belong here you scum'

Didn't some of the european enlightenment writers use native american societies for arguments about liberty and egalitarianism?

Rookie mistake.

Depressing but true of too many. My father was an immigrant from Burma, worked hard, paid his taxes, raised a family, and spoke better English than most of these knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers ever will.

```He (a character in the book) split mankind into two groups "from Connemara" and "not from Connemara"``` For me fter 20+ years in the UK this single sentence from the thirties still describes best this society...