Spike Rapner/Sa-Sobek Manangya (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} spike_rapner) wrote,@ 2006-07-13 18:00:00 |
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Spike gets political
Okay, no. Not really. This is only borderline political at best. But it does have to do with one of the hotbed topics of the moment. It really comes to my attention that in some sense, my grandmother might be an illegal immigrant. Y'see, in order to get into the country, she had to buy a birth certificate with a phony name on it. No rare occurrence in those days for Chinese immigrants, mind you. But nevertheless, like it really matters. She's lived in the same meek little house for several decades (In the slums, mind you! A guy on the street once tried to sell me bathtub liquor when I was 8) and the government is none the wiser, nor would they probably care. If I insist on making any point at all (and I really don't insist), it'd be that legal, illegal, who the hell cares and what kind of damn difference does it really make? Really, I have no point to make.
Okay, no. Not really. This is only borderline political at best. But it does have to do with one of the hotbed topics of the moment. It really comes to my attention that in some sense, my grandmother might be an illegal immigrant. Y'see, in order to get into the country, she had to buy a birth certificate with a phony name on it. No rare occurrence in those days for Chinese immigrants, mind you. But nevertheless, like it really matters. She's lived in the same meek little house for several decades (In the slums, mind you! A guy on the street once tried to sell me bathtub liquor when I was 8) and the government is none the wiser, nor would they probably care. If I insist on making any point at all (and I really don't insist), it'd be that legal, illegal, who the hell cares and what kind of damn difference does it really make? Really, I have no point to make.
