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Yeah, I've got first generation fimmigrant extended family who worked hard unlike the other freeloading immigrants, or so they believe.
Similarly, that chap Ali Akbar (Ali Alexander), who co-organised the capitol riots last year was from a good hard working immigrant family, unlike the others in his opinion. I mention this because I called him out on his anti immigrant views when I had the misfortune to meet him.
Not much wiggle room between Daily Mail readers and the American far right it seems.
Stonehedge-
See also benefits; "my 30 free hours childcare? But that's different because [reasons]".
On the DM front my absolute favourite is the insistence on personal responsibility for everything except for all the things that are important to me on which the government MUST TAKE ACTION.
I know cognitive dissonance is a bit of a meme now, but it's a default mental state that needs to be consciously countered.
hugo7
Mentally rolling through the nationalities of some of the people I know of who voted Brexit; Kiwi, Indian Mauritan, Bahamian, Scottish, 2nd gen Irish, another 2nd gen Irish. I think "those other immigrants / not like us" is a pretty standard personality type TBH.