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Immigration Research

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Research personal questions: - Pack mind/human behavior roles? - How would human behavior play a role? - Could grouping be safer for both sides? - Perhaps ideas of defense? - Could it create a bigger target or shrink ideas to mess with the group? - Could grouping have been forced? - Birds of a feather? - Could comfort or fear play a factor? - Could it have been a way to bring and keep home alive in a new place that is not home? After Refocusing: - What is the "other"? - How could immigrants be seen as the "other"? - Could the idea of the "other" be projected because of jealousy? - How is the immigration process played out? - What are the different reasons/types of immigration? - Could there be different groups of immigrants projecting the idea onto other and different immigrants? (Spanish projecting onto Italian, Irish onto Russian, onto U.S.) - Why come into the U.S.? 'Birds of a feather flock together' - William Turner

Thinking about Success

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(In terms of economic success, my ratings of most important to least) Hard work~ This is such a basic and fundamental sort of building block, that it almost falls into a now rare category... With economic success, of course nothing will really happen without it. Nothing will come of merely expecting results to improve by sitting around and twiddling thumbs. Success has to be earned, back-breakingly so, hard work is the foundation of building success up to become great. Without it, there would be nothing but a half-done job that is hardly adequate. Skill~ Skill would be important in order to have a sort of mindset and ability to even perform a task. I think success can come from anything that has the right skill set to accomplish a task, it is what defines a person's performance in different tasks. Specifically, in economic success, it would be more skill and knowledge-based, two things I think fall in the same category. Basically... Correct measurement of s