Little America Has a Big Heart

Last night, my spouse called out to me to come upstairs from my basement lair and watch TV with her. Normally, that is a request I might normally have dodged, but since Marquette and Baylor had just destroyed my bracket, I decided to go see what cooking show, HGTV special, or “Housewives” episode had caught her eye.

Turns out that she was not watching her usual fare. Instead, she had tuned into a fairly new show called “Little America.” After one episode I was hooked. It is a great series with good writing, interesting plots, amazing characters, and best of all, the stories are true! The series is an anthology of the stories of immigrants to America and how their lives turned out. The immigrants are a diverse bunch. You can see the official trailer here.

In the four episodes last night the main characters were: a Mexican girl living in America illegally, a Nigerian man who immigrated legally to attend college, a Ugandan woman who comes to America for college but starts her own business, and a French woman searching for purpose in life who decided to travel to America alone on an extended vacation. I intend to watch the rest of the shows. There are another 12 shows to see because the series has been on for two seasons, and apparently 8 shows is a full season these days.

In any event, the show is great, and I highly recommend it. It makes viewers appreciate this nation and the opportunity it offers to almost anyone who comes here. Not only that, but it also shows how decent average Americans are when it comes to helping people in need.

In one scene the Nigerian man, a young college age student, wanders into a western wear shop in Oklahoma. Two old white cowboys are shooting the breeze when he walks in, and conversation immediately stops. The Nigerian stands for second looking at them as they stare back, and then the owner of the shop asks, “Can I help you with something?” in a thick Okie drawl. The young man replies in his thickly accented English that he would like to buy a cowboy hat. A deal is made in short order, but the young man is shocked by the price tag. He pays for the hat, but it takes all his money.

The other old man in the store tells the Nigerian that he needs boots to go with such a fine hat, but the young man says he cannot afford boots because he is broke after paying for the hat. Undaunted, the old cowboy says “I never said you should buy some boots! I just said you need to have some to go with that hat.” He turns to his friend, the store owner, and tells him to set the young man up with a nice pair of boots. He tells the young man he is not so old that he cannot remember what it was like to be broke, and also proceeds to warn him about the hazards of breaking in new cowboy boots.

It says something about the state of media narratives today that when the young man entered the store and the two old men stopped talking and stared at him that my expectation was that they would be rude and dismissive toward the young man. Of course, that rudeness would be driven by racism and the young man would either have to be fearless and demand service, or be timid and leave while trying to understand how he would cope long term such a racist society. Instead, the show showed the fact of what a real immigrant experienced. Once the men figured out that the young man was a hard working person trying to fit into his new country, they befriended him as best they could. Two old white guys in deep red Oklahoma in the 1970s helping an immigrant black man?!?! Oh my, oh my!! Can you hear the left-wing narratives crashing?

The other shows have similar happy endings, but not without issues, hard times and uncertainty. Because the vignettes are only 30 minutes long, they tend to leave some issues unexplored, but they highlight enough of the struggles to make one appreciate the stress and pressure the people in the situations are feeling. For instance, the Ugandan lady rented a store for her business, but had no idea the rent did not include any of the furniture, fixtures, and equipment. Prices were so much lower in Uganda that the rent seemed high enough that the shop would certainly be furnished. Despite that daunting financial blow, she worked hard and prospered in time. Inspiring a story as that would be in any case, seeing the woman’s picture at the end, posing with her products, has real impact. These are not fairy tales or political propaganda. They are the true stories of great Americans.

The show is great, the stories are true, the dialogue and acting are solid and the material is suitable for family viewing. Almost best of all, after the stories themselves, is the fact that the show is really a huge compliment to most Americans. Not all Americans, e.g., the cops who ticketed the Ugandan woman for selling her wares on the street and told her “that’s how it works in this country” were not exactly heroes, but time and again these newcomers meet people who are generally polite, caring, good-hearted, and helpful. It happens in Oklahoma, and it happens in California. What a concept! The majority of Americans are good people and do not worry much about skin color or where people were born!! That is not a white male American saying that. It is the lived experience of foreigners in this country decades ago, during a time liberals claim was rampant with racism.

Of course, that makes the show anathema to zealous liberals. One reviewer takes the show to task for not being overtly political: “Immigrants, they’re just like us!” is a fine message in theory, but in practice, especially now, as immigrants are treated like animals by the American government, it is simplistic and reductive. – Karen Han, in essay “Little America’s positive Premise is the whole problem” Right! Having a positive outlook on life in America is “the whole problem.” It would be hilarious if the woman writing that hateful tripe were not so serious and her readers not so gullible.

While 97% of viewers like the show, only 76% of critics give it good marks. The people in that 24% are quite likely to be predominately liberal. One can safely bet large sums that the people running Biden’s administration during his prolonged and progressive senility are true believers that “Little America” is “simplistic and reductive’’.

Unlike lazy grifters like a Pete Buttigieg, railing about racist roads, or Sam Brinton, a fake woman in drag stealing suitcases at airports and ranting about the horrible treatment of transgender people in America, the shows present people who are brave, honest, and real. To those pretenders, the people whose stories are presented in “Little America” are characters out of some children’s book. No one makes it in America without a grift. Hard work? Honesty? Sacrifice? A little help from one’s fellow humans? Forget about it!! What you need is a good con you can run for the rest of your life. Fake gender, fake patriot, fake hard worker, fake anti-racist warrior… the more fakery the better. It’s more flexible, you see? If one con starts to crumble, switch things up and start a new one.

For a devoted liberal, “Little America” is heresy because it showcases all the things about America that liberals and woke ideology despise. Decency, honesty, good nature, color blindness, solid work ethic, lack of political agendas, all the things that running their socialist grift has to denigrate and undermine to justify itself. Without rampant racism, we do not need government to enforce affirmative action. Without dishonesty and laziness, we don’t have much of a corruption problem. Without indecency, we do not have an epidemic of porn and grooming of young children. As those problems disappear, so does the need for more government. To woke liberals, that is the worst consequence imaginable. For conservatives and libertarians, that is just a great endorsement for the show. Please check it out and get inspired by the greatness of our country and the quiet goodness of the average American

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4 thoughts on “Little America Has a Big Heart”

  1. “…or Sam Brinton, a fake woman in drag stealing suitcases at airports …”

    Was Sam Brinton stealing, or did he think the luggage was owner-fluid ?

  2. Sounds like the stuff that can still be found in flyover country. Still, but fading.
    When I do something like that, it always gives me a good feeling. I don’t do it often enough.

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