Immigrants and Extended Families

Some folks on the mainland are whining that their immigrant neighbors have a lot of people living in the same house.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/magazine/26wwln_lead.html

I would tell them "Big F----in Deal!"

Ideally, the less people in the home, the better. That is because you'd get more privacy.

However, if your family is poor, you'd got to make some sacrifices. That might mean having many of your relatives under a roof!

I dont hear anyone in Hawaii whining about this, except for imported white conservatives who moved from the mainland.

In Hawaii, we have a lot of Asians and Pacific Islanders whose culture stress the importance of extended family and family gatherings.

So it's not unusual to have a lot of people living under a roof. Though the richer families tend to have less people in a bigger home.

In white mainland US culture, the parents take care of the kids, and the kids better leave the house by age 25 or else they'll be considered a "looser".

In many Asian and Pacific Island cultures, the parents take care of the kids, be very strict with the kids, and when the kids become adults, they stay home to take care of the parents. A 26 year old person who stays with his/her parents isn't considered a "looser", he/she is considered "devoted to taking care of the extended family". In fact, those who ditch their families are the ones considered "loosers".

And those who migrate from Asia or the Pacific Islands to the US tend to give whatever money they earn to their relatives back home, or help their relative access the opportunities in the US.

However, the anti-immigration fascists hate it when immigrants bring their relatives to the US. I would tell those anti-immigration fascists to "mind your own fuckin business!"