The immigrant origin of Mr Donald Trump.

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 23 NOV 2016. N2.
The immigrant origin of Mr Donald Trump.

With Ilokano and Pangasinan-Cordillera roots and as an immigrant in the USA, I am now beginning to see more and more the wisdom in that American imagination of nation formation that regards inclusion as a virtue.

Couched in something simple but loaded with so much history, America as 'a nation among nations' must remain so if it wants to remain the model of freedom and democracy, of liberty and justice, and diversity and pluralism all over the world.

This leads me to the issue of Mr Trump's lopsided view of today's immigrant in America.

Himself coming from an immigrant background, we expect him to have the sensibility of an exile, or at least, the memory of one.

He might the second generation, with his grandfather a 16-year old immigrant at the the turn of the 19th century from a town of 1,200 people in Germany and ordered to be banished--to be exiled from his homeland--Mr Trump the grandson ought to remember Ellis Island and that poem about immigrant peoples seeking a new life in these United States.

This story of Mr Trump's grandfather banishment provides us a glimpse of his Weltanschauung about those who come to partake of what is left of the American Dream.

Read--and think and think through what Mr Trump can offer us. --