I'm sorry she made you feel so bad. Some people have no understanding and think it's ok to label a group of people while forgetting they are individuals.
I have been getting this email from people talking about how whiney immigrants are and that America is so great and if they don't like it they should leave. It talks about how America believes in God (christian) and critisizes them for believing different. It talks about learning the language and if they don't speak english blah blah blah.
I find it the most unchristian email I have ever recieved. It's full of hate, predjudice and judgement. No compassion or understandning whatsoever. In the end it says if you don't agree delete it and if you do pass it on.
I have responded to each person that has sent it to me saying exactly what I feel about it and why. The sad thing is I have recieved it from half my American friends and family back home and yesterday it was from my mom.
It makes me so angry and sad. So much ignorance and cruelty because people are different. Being an immigrant myself I undertand how it feels and what it's like to try to fit in and adjust.
Friends and family here in Norway have said some horrible things about immigrants and seem to forget I am one. I actually have people say I'm different because I am white or because I am married to their relative. It makes me sick.
Sorry......I just got this email again last night and it's pretty fresh on my mind. All people are individuals with thier own feelings and should be treated as such.
Hugs Carrie,
Heidu

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin