The American Song

The American Song

hat the prejudice to immigrants is bigger than the trust, one look at us and they charge twice. Now, after taking a closer look at America we see, that it is possible to live the life of our dreams, but that for immigrants the possibility, that they become millionaires is not very likely to happen, so is the chance that they live a middleclass-life. The advantage that you are free to be anything you choose is also more or less for white people in America. The girls dream of their own houses and apartments with more space and terrace ends with the twelve in a room theory, because everything is so expensive and the house owners slam the doors in foreigners faces and even dont give them the chance to show, that they can live and behave like white people too. In Addition to that the young men say: if you can fight and if you are white in America. If you are a foreigner, you have to work hard to exist in America. And the girls dont really find an argument against the statement of the boys, that America is full of grime and organized crime, all in all a terrible time. Life can be bright in America, life is all right in America, the girls sing. They show that there is no way to belong to the high- or even middle-society, because there is no space for coloured people. The girls speak of pride and honour, but the boys point out, that there is only pride and honour, if you stay on your own side. The boys want to go back to San Juan and sing that everyone there will give them big cheer, but there the girls are right when the simply answer that everyone there will have moved here. You have to fight for your rights in the society. Immigrants should be happy, if they get a badly paid job for example to wipe tables and shine shoes.

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