GMAT whores (Pardon my Russian)

sorry if i overreacted / misread, but i am glad someone else was offended at first glance. it really made me mad, because i live in a very diverse area, and I get to work with many different cultures (although mostly asian/middle eastern.) 99.99% of the time everything is hunky dory - but occasionally we get the bloke who pines for the homeland , doesn't assimilate well into North American culture (which isn't that hard to do, BTW, USA meets you halfway vis-a-vis acculturation, and you get to keep much of your original cultural identity) and just starts to complain. i've joked with other desis that we will take a collection and ship them home.


also, my neighborhood and watercooler conversations start to get uneasy when the .01% I've met talk about how the US sucks, commercialism sucks, sin this, debauchery that, and we need sharia law, blah blah blah, when the ink on the H1-B hasnt even dried yet. for some reason in both work and in the neighborhood, i am the person people gravitate towards when they need to kvetch about something. my mediterranean complexion and features means i get to hear everyone complain about whitey... people assume i am middle eastern.. but im not, i am italian...