She is so clueless.
I know a family here from the Philippines that absolutely enjoys every minute. The husband has to travel back home often for his job, and he is always happy to be back in Nevada. They have had to bend over backwards and in every direction to stay here and for their children that have grown into adults have had to do the same to stay in college and continue an education here.
The family just purchased their first home, in the same neighborhood as Evil Conservative.
I must have lucked out all those years I worked with immigrants from China to Russia and every where else that could get here, by boat, inner tube or a foot.
These people from everywhere had just one desire, to live with no fear, most as our long time ago ancestors live within their own community's. They may own homes in a mixed community but they socialize within their own. They are Proud to be Americans but keep all their own traditions and faiths.
First generation Americans in most part keep their heads low and expect their children to get an education, stay out of trouble and help the family. Some work 2-3 jobs to provide for their family's--
they still have pride. As more generations come along the old ways get lost and then problems begin.
The original immigrants cannot understand the loss of tradition in their family's, the loss of respect from their own family.
This in not the fault of the people, it is trying to understand why the State comes in to mess with their traditions.
Next town has a large Asian population and the State got bent out of shape as in some Cambodian family's it was traditional to take a silver piece, a quarter to rub on the site of a pain. Kids coming to school with the marks left were soon in a mess, the state was charging their parents with child abuse.
Not for us to find it unusual to have a coworker come in with marks on their temple as they had had a head ache. Strange but more then a few times if I complained of a shoulder or hand pain a coworker would grab me and squeeze where it hurt. The pain from the squeeze was so bad I would cry, but in a few minutes the pain was gone, some of this stuff works and I was lucky no one tried to put needles in me for acupuncture.
The South of the border has immigrants coming in that are into Santeria, Kids and adults wearing beads of different colors around their neck. I have to remember that way back when in the Puritan Colony's the Catholics arriving were run out of Mass, as were the Quakers, the Mormons in the north Central and the Unitarians in the far north.
It is not that the immigrants do not appreciate America, they love America, but do not want their ethnic traditions to be taken away from them.