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Scarface And The Passion Of New Immigrants To The United
States
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Scarface is a 1983 Movie About A Man Who…
Comes over as an immigrant from Cuba to
Miami in the 1980s. Between approximately
April and October of 1980, there was a mass
exodus of Cubans to Miami from Cuba. During
this short period of time, over 125,000 Cubans
made the boat journey between the United
States and Cuba. This movement occurred
due to a massive downturn in the Cuban
economy. The boat lift quickly began to have
negative implications for President Carter
when it was discovered that many of the
exiles were people who had been released
from Cuban mental health facilities and jails.
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The Lead Character In The Movie Is Tony Montana…
Montana comes over to the United States from Cubawith a checkered past. He arrives in the United Stateswith nothing, and he gets his green card by killingsomeone in a refugee camp, which allowed him to gainfavor with someone who was able to expedite hisadmission into the United States.
Played By Al Pacino
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The First illicit Job He Performs In The United States Is…
When he is offered the chance to pickup some drugs in exchange for cash.
He was working as a short-order cookbefore this point. The small diner hewas working for was across the streetfrom a fancy nightclub. He watchedthe Ferraris and Porsches roll up atnight and watched men exit with
beautiful women.
This was the lifestyle hewanted for himself.
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And When He was Offered His First Job…
For around $5,000, he told the man offering him the job thatthe money was not enough. He managed to get himself awarded an even more difficult job. The man who offered him
the job laughed when he gave it to him. He believed thatPacino was sure to die. But Pacino took it anyways.
Sure enough, when he showed up at the job all hell brokeloose. His brother was strung up and cut up with a chainsaw,
but Pacino remained tough. Pacino eventually managed tosomehow kill everyone and left a hotel (where the deal was)
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That Night…
He delivered the drugs and money to the head drug dealer(whom he had not met before). The drug dealer took himout to dinner, and Pacino was there looking like a goof, in an
unbuttoned shirt, talking in ways which were entirelyinappropriate, and so forth. Pacino asked the head drugdealer’s wife (the beautiful Michelle Pfieffer) to dance. Shesaid, “Okay.”
She told him he’s a pig while they are dancing.
“You wait, you see . . . you’ll be mine,” he toldher.
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“I’d Sooner Be Dead Than Wind Up With A Boat Person Like You!”
she told him.
He did eventually marry her.
And as the two were dancing that night,one of the drug dealers looked at the headdrug dealer and asks:
“Why would you have anything todo with that piece of garbage?”
“Because a man like that will doanything for you. He’ll never quit.
He’s that loyal to the idea of success. He’ll die fighting.”
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Scarface Is A Fascinating Movie Because It Shows The Power Of
Our Will
In effect, it is also a story abouteveryone in America because we areall “boat people” to some extent who
have come to the United States fromother countries in search of something. The difference betweenus and Montana is how hungry mostof us are. When new immigrantscome to the United States, they are
extremely hungry. Decades later,their children generally do not followin their footsteps. The children of newimmigrants typically are lesssuccessful than their parents, and thechildren of the immigrant’s children
are even less successful.
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I Am Going To Say Something That A Lot Of People Will Find
Offensive,
but I am going to say it anyway becausethere is some truth to it.
When my father was growing up and in school heremarked to me that the hardest working kids in school
were typically Jewish. This is something I have heardothers say before. Many of these kids had parents whowere recent immigrants to the suburbs of Detroit where Igrew up. Their parents had grown up during a time whenthere was a lot of anti-Semitism and they pushed their
kids to work extremely hard in school. Newer ethnic
groups typically do not have a “good old boy” sort of network to rely upon and, therefore, their parents may
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When I was growing up, this was no t
necessaril y the case. The hardes
t working kids
tended to be Asian in m y school.
The second
hardes t tended to be the Jewish
kids, and the
third hardes t working, as a general rule,
tended to be the whi te Chris tian
kids.
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I Do Not Think There Is Anything Racist About What I Am Relating
I also do not think there is anything
discriminatory about what I am writing. I think
there is a pattern in what I witnessed, and it
was completely obvious in the schools around
me. The children of newer immigrants to theUnited States tend to work harder (as a
general rule) than the children of people who
have been in this country for a longer period of
time. I am not sure that the observations I have
should be made on religious or racial grounds
—indeed, they are likely more appropriately
made on the “recent immigration” grounds.
More recent immigrants and their children tend
to, as a general rule, be people who are more
interested in working harder than people who
are more established.
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A Couple Of Years Ago I Was Getting A Haircut…
on Mission Street in San Marino,California.
San Marino is a relatively wealthy suburb rightoutside of Los Angeles. The suburb has thedistinction of having the best school system inLos Angeles and one of the best in the UnitedStates. There is a white barber there who has
been cutting hair on Mission Street for probablyat least 50 years. San Marino used to be apredominately Catholic and Protestantneighborhood. Now, San Marino is at least 50%Chinese, and the population of Chinese keepsgrowing. The barber and I were speaking one
day and he made the following observation:
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“Before the Chinese started moving here, allof the white kids in the San Marino schoolsused to get As and Bs. Now they all get Cs
and Ds.”
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This Is True, I Believe, And I Do Not Think There Is...
anything prejudiced in sayingthis.
Sitting on my desk right now is the resume of a
Russian woman whom I do not think has beenliving in the United States more than a year or so. Iinterviewed her about six months ago for aposition with our company. She is an attorney andhas passed the bar exam. When I interviewed her,I realized that she did not speak English very welland would probably not be a good fit because herposition required her to interact with the public.Nevertheless, in the six months since I interviewedher, and after having interviewed probably at least25 people for the position she is applying for, Icannot stop thinking that she is the best person Iinterviewed for the position.
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“I never fail at anything …”she said.
“I work as hard as possiblefor you and company …”she said.
“I really want job …” shesaid.
“I am extremely loyal …”she said.
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I Contrast This With Many Of The “Native” Americans…
I have interviewed who have showed up for the interviewsand asked me all sorts of questions about what I could dofor them. They often acted coy and have had numerous jobs. They talk about leaving one job after another due tosome dissatisfaction with their boss or the need for differentexperiences. They just do not seem hungry, and I know theylikely will not do all that well. This is something I see all thetime. An employer wants to hire people who are hungry andwant to work hard.
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I Emailed The Russian Woman Last Night…
To see if she was still available to work.
She hardly speaks English but is the best
fit I have seen. I know that she wants to
succeed and will do better due to this.
We want to hire people who
are hungry.
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