Perceptions of the US by Middle Eastern immigrants

[doubleg]

Show up at a gun show dressed like cam'ron and see how many evil stares your get.

 

[TSH77769]

Oleg, I would not worry about it in the sligtest. I know a man who was born and raised in Lebanon. His family fled persecution there and came to the US because they were Christians. He is one of the most hardcore pro-gun, pro-American, Americans I have ever met.

I think that taking someone who happens to be middle eastern shooting would tend to make them more American and more pro-freedom, so don;t worry about it.

Tsh77769

 

[MisterPX]

Can't speak on the skin color thing, as that can't be helped. As someone with less than pale skin myself, I've gotten a few stares over the years, but a smile and a wink seem to take care of those. My issue with the riginal statement is the MUslim part. Can you identify a Muslim just by looking at one? I doubt it, unless they're wearing tradition attire.

 

[entropy]

There was a time, Oleg, when many would have had the same concerns about teaching a black man, an eastern european, an asian, or a Jew to shoot.

I grew up during the Cold War, Red Dawn and Rambo were the movies of chioice, yet I go shooting with a Russian several times a year.
[Bugs Bunny voice] Oh, the Irony![/Bugs Bunny voice]

 

[Titan6]

I know what you mean. I had lunch with a Russian guy today. We talked a little about how in 1985 nuclear war with Russia was a virtual certainty. He is interested in joining the US military and saw me in the uniform and wanted to ask me what it is like.

If someone had told me in 1985 that I would be having lunch with a Russian man who was trying hard to get a green card so he could join the US military in 2007 I would have asked what they were smoking. And yet there we were. Things like that renew my hope in the world.

 

[entropy]

When I was in the Army in '87, there was a Russian guy in another unit near mine on post. He had a Master's degree of some sort, can't remember what. He was an enlisted man, couldn't become an officer because he wasn't a US citizen. My unit had people of many nationalites, but I was surprised to meet a Russian in the US Army.

PS, we shoot Russian weapons when we go shooting, White Horseradish and I.

 

[rangerruck]

apparently, an american is not allowed to have the following term used by us and for us," when in Rome..." . Apparently ,not only does this not get to be used or applied by us, but non conforming immigrants get to use it here ,by themselves , for themsleves, in our country, to use against us.