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Originally Posted by lio45
By definition, the people who are complaining that the neighborhood "isn't what it used to" are always going to be the locals, not the newcomers. It's normal and is always the case everywhere.
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But when some locals complain about not wanting the newcomers around, and other locals do want them around, then it becomes a matter of who speaks for the "us who were here before".
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Originally Posted by saffronleaf
Agreed that neither group is a monolith, but you don't find too many immigrant nativists (unless they've already conquered the place or something then they become the new natives I guess).
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Actually it seems like it's quite common for certain immigrants (even if the term nativism isn't used) themselves to make arguments that they don't
want further immigrants to arrive because they already feel settled and assimilated versus the later newcomers, and if they've worked hard to earn their position in the country, they might even feel like a new crop of newcomers, if perceived as low in socio-economic or cultural status, make them and their community "look bad".
In fact, it's common to see this attitude criticized as "slamming the door behind them".
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