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by quanticle 5312 days ago
>In Iowa, you're nobody. In the [Capital City of your ancestor's land], you're something. Imagine that.

Really? My experience (as an immigrant) has been quite the opposite. Here in America it's a lot easier to become "somebody". You work hard, develop your skills and learn to market yourself. Once you do that, you're either on a upward trajectory at your current firm or you have the prerequisites to find yourself a better position elsewhere.

In my native country (India) family connections still count for quite a great deal, and job switching is still somewhat frowned upon (though attitudes regarding both of the above have improved immensely in the past 20 years). Therefore, you can have skills and a hard work ethic and still find yourself stuck in a not-great situation.
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hello_moto 5312 days ago
My assumption/pre-requisite is that if you can become an immigrant, in a few situations, your family is rich already or successful back home thus you would have connections already and you're probably in mid to high economy class.

I think you can say the same thing too everywhere: Work Hard, Develop Skills, Market yourself.

Marketing seems to be the key point in developing countries probably because the average people are not exposed to certain kind of hypes.

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quanticle 5312 days ago
>My assumption/prerequisite is that if you can become an immigrant, in a few situations, your family is rich already or successful back home thus you would have connections already and you're probably in mid to high economy class.

That's not always a good assumption to make. Not everyone who makes it to the US is rich or well connected. In fact, the vast majority of immigrants to the US have not been rich or well connected back home, which is why they immigrated to the US in the first place.

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hello_moto 5312 days ago
Regardless what my assumptions are it's not a matter of "Right or Wrong" because if there are 100 immigrants, there will be 100 paths/experiences :).

Your path is different than the path of these people who come back home because they have better opportunities there than here.

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