About this seeming paradox the well-meaning should be well-informed
"These Puerto Ricans are not foreigners, and yet they are more foreign than most of the immigrants who preceded them. About this seeming paradox the well-meaning should be well-informed, since to be received kindly merely because one is a foreigner is a cold kind of condescension: the chances are that the man who thus receives you is determined never really to know you."
I coulnd't figure the emphasized sentence out, can you explain it?
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alibey1917 I coulnd't figure the emphasized sentence out, can you explain it? The writer inverted correctly but in my view unnecessarily. " The well-meaning are the English-speaking native Americans who would like immigrants to feel welcome.
- alibey1917 I coulnd't figure the emphasized sentence out, can you explain it?
- The writer inverted correctly but in my view unnecessarily.
- " The well-meaning are the English-speaking native Americans who would like immigrants to feel welcome.
- The paradox is that Puerto Ricans are US citizens who can nevertheless seem more foreign to US mainland natives than an Italian or German.
- (That is true, by the way, in my experience.
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alibey1917I coulnd't figure the emphasized sentence out, can you explain it?
The writer inverted correctly but in my view unnecessarily. If you straighten it out, it becomes clearer: "The well-meaning should be well-informed about this seeming paradox, since to be received kindly merely because one is a foreigner is a cold kind of condescension …."
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