[gregjor]

The only challenge you describe is your own bigotry. Your stories do not match the experience of any immigrants I know, including my wife. I can’t imagine where in the US you would find “rural people” who have never seen a non-Caucasian. African-Americans and Mexicans have been in this country as long as white people.

One-year-old children don’t form meaningful sentences, not even in rural America where families eat at Arby’s and holler out slurs at the TV.

You can find bigots and racist people everywhere in the world, including among immigrants to America.

[psyklic]

I did an internship in a largely white rural town (e.g. ~0.5% black). One of the other interns who was black confided in me that he was uncomfortable walking around town and grocery shopping, since he was stared at constantly.