Foreign youth get a taste of the Grand Banana Republic (it ain’t pretty)

This is what happens when foreign exchange students or J-1 Visa visitors believe the land-of-opportunity myth that has been perpetrated by the Grand Banana Republic all these years (via Hollywood): What they find of course is that they’ve entered a pretty scummy country. ”…This is not what I thought when I paid all this money to come here,” said Natalia Berlinschi, a Romanian who came to the U.S. on a J-1 visa hoping to save up for dental school but got stuck in South Carolina this summer without a job. She took to begging for work on the Myrtle Beach boardwalk and sharing a three-bedroom house with 30 other exchange students…In my whole life, I’ve never lived in that kind of place and that kind of conditions…” Now you know how those born here in this shit hole feel.  Here.

Related: see past post: Foreign exchange students get a taste of the real Grand Banana Republic (and it ain’t pretty). Here.

Exchange students get taste of real America–and it ain’t pretty

Some foreign exchange students are learning the hard way what many of us Americans have known for a long time: that much of America is one big trailer park. “They came from around the world hoping to spend a high school year immersed in the culture and joys of America. Instead, five young foreign exchange students found themselves caught in a nightmare of neglect, malnourishment and abandonment by those supposed to protect them. Now those five — natives of countries stretching from Norway to Tanzania to Colombia — are back home telling friends of a different America than they expected…” Article here.