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Victor Davis Hanson

The Traditional Immigrant

Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.

The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia.

The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.

An excellent example is the recently released memoir from Encounter Books, American Trojan, by former University of Southern California president and Cypriot immigrant Dr. Max Nikias. It resonates with thankfulness to America for offering him opportunities undreamed of elsewhere.

He and his wife arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Cyprus nearly penniless but determined to work hard, master English, and enrich the country that welcomed them with their talents and education. What followed was an amazing American trajectory that saw Nikias become president of the University of Southern California—arguably the most successful one in recent memory.

I grew up in rural California surrounded by hard-working immigrant farm families from Armenia, India, Japan, and Mexico. Their work ethic, love of America, and productive farms were models for U.S. non-immigrants. Such immigrants explained why the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive and richest agricultural region in the nation.

My own Swedish grandfather, disabled by poison gas while fighting on the Western Front in World War I, loved all things Swedish, but not nearly as much as his beloved America.

Four Hansons fought on the front lines of World Wars I and II. One was disabled, and another was killed on Okinawa. And all felt blessed that their parents and grandparents had gotten to America.

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https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/17/our-new-ungracious-immigrants/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Swear allegiance to this country, obey our laws and assimilate or get the hell out.

[Fishrrman]

Time to END ALL IMMIGRATION, permanently.
We are full-up.
We don't need any more.

I'll accept a few exceptions, such as persecuted whites from South Africa, etc.
But that's all.

[berdie]

This was a very good and true article.

Of course, most of VDH's are.

[Wingnut]

Time to END ALL IMMIGRATION, permanently.
We are full-up.
We don't need any more.

I'll accept a few exceptions, such as persecuted whites from South Africa, etc.
But that's all.

And I'll add a few pretty Iranian women. 

[Cyber Liberty]

And I'll add a few pretty Iranian women.

Maybe not the Iranian soccer chicks. They look like trannies....

[Wingnut]

Maybe not the Iranian soccer chicks. They look like trannies....

Yeah there is that.