Wave upon wave of immigrants bought into the American dream that anything was possible in the United Sates and anyone who put in the effort could succeed here.

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This plays out in video games and fiction and comic books and movies, where we play as near-invincible soldiers, ninjas, or barbarians or read about super heroes or powerful wizards, or watch Chuck Norris lay bearded waste to wave upon wave of bogies.

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The argument that cyberspace is somehow different because it is man made forgets that it is built upon natural wave forms, human emotions, electrons, protons, and neutrons just like the ocean, land, and air.

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If the tide of South-East Asian migrants had broken upon Bradford in a single wave, as did the Kenyan and Ugandan Asians who fled to London and the Midlands in the late 1960s and early 1970s, their story would be simpler, and happier.

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