Interesting letter in the New Yorker about young people, the children of first generation immigrants, feeling disenfranchised from the country in which they live because they “only see the disparity between their community’s impoverished isolation and the cosmopolitan wealth of their host nation. The low paying jobs that their parents embraced become for them a stigma.” The writer, Jeff Weiss, uses Muslim young people in the Netherlands as an example. He says that “unlike their parents, they have no ready options to emigrate elsewhere in pursuit of a better life.” Our mission should be to help these young people find that “better life” here.
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