Unless you are 100% native American, i.e., Indian, you are either an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. Immigrants built this country, waves of them, and immigrants today fill jobs that "Americans" can't or won't perform.
Expanding on the jobs aspect of immigrants doing work others won't do, we had personal experience with this when we grew cranberries. Even though we would pay well above minimum wage no locals applied to hand pull weeds on our bogs. We had to use a labor service from a nearby big city. In our case we had 10-12 Guatemalans. They'd spend a long hot day on their knees carefully hand pull weeds like maple sablings.
I just added to the Substack giving you credit. You reminded me of the novel "Dandelion Wine" by the great Ray Bradbury. From Wiki: "The title refers to a wine made with dandelion petals and other ingredients, commonly citrus fruit. In the story, dandelion wine, as made daily by the protagonist's grandfather, serves as a metaphor for distilling all of the joys of summer."
Unless you are 100% native American, i.e., Indian, you are either an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants. Immigrants built this country, waves of them, and immigrants today fill jobs that "Americans" can't or won't perform.
Dandelions make fabulous wine.
Expanding on the jobs aspect of immigrants doing work others won't do, we had personal experience with this when we grew cranberries. Even though we would pay well above minimum wage no locals applied to hand pull weeds on our bogs. We had to use a labor service from a nearby big city. In our case we had 10-12 Guatemalans. They'd spend a long hot day on their knees carefully hand pull weeds like maple sablings.
I just added to the Substack giving you credit. You reminded me of the novel "Dandelion Wine" by the great Ray Bradbury. From Wiki: "The title refers to a wine made with dandelion petals and other ingredients, commonly citrus fruit. In the story, dandelion wine, as made daily by the protagonist's grandfather, serves as a metaphor for distilling all of the joys of summer."