Beware of the Foreigner! Euww...

I'll tell ya one thing that has changed: People who hear the news of my green card all of a sudden become aware of the fact that I was/am a foreigner! One of them! The other, yuck...euwww stay away you suspicious thing. These thoughts run through their mind but their professional attire and liberal-arts education spill like clorox over their instincts, and they say "Congratulations :-)"

Strange for some, I do not even have an accent. I do not make grammar mistakes. I speak the daily language, slang, curses and all. I am upto date with the local news. I dress and act like a regular young adult would do. So I used to blend in perfectly, until the happy news of my permanent residency. Strange how that dialectic works.