You cannot tell the story of America without including the tremendous role that immigrants have played in shaping our nation. Now, more than ever, we must recognize their incredible contributions and be grateful for the openness and diversity of our nation.
Openness is at the core of our economy. More than that. It’s at the core of humanity. It’s at the core of our ethics and mores.
Without diversity, our country would be far worse off. Differences make us stronger. Immigrants are are our soccer coaches, teachers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters, soldiers, authors, artists…
To me, they are my family. My dad came here some 20 years ago to start a new life. America took a chance on him. It’s time we show everyone that we are willing to take a chance.
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@rrhoover Super cool!
Really appreciate your open mentality Ryan. Something I learned from you early on was that "differences make us stronger." Be optimistic and surround yourself with people who are far different from you. One of the best ways to learn.
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Devil's Advocate Hat on here (thank you for allowing me to wear it and I say this in a constructive, thought provoking manor ok?) I think it would be counterproductive to the intigration and assimilation of said immigrant founders (or any other subgoup like say female founders or race x, y or z founders) to continue to isolate them based upon any particular trait like this. Thoughts?
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I am thinking of putting up a Google Doc to aggregate list of founders who were on H1B visa once. It would help if we can crowdsource the data. I am making this link public. Link - bit.ly/h1bfounders
Love how quickly the product industry reacts to the nuances of the society. Hope the Trump-foolery gets to sanity, soon.
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Interesting idea! Going to launch a deck building card game where you start a hypothetical country from scratch by choosing different character cards (all immigrants). Unlike other games, these character cards have agency, having a say as to which player they go to via the use of coloured indicator bars. Our artwork can be found on our Instagram & FB page @nomads.subversion
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