Roberto da Costa explains why he is an American

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[gnarll]

Thing is, his friends were Rahne, Scottish. Xi'an, Vietnamese. Sam, American. Amara maybe Roman. Illyana, Russian. Dani, Cheyenne with American as a possible second. Warlock, alien. Doug, American but they did not get along. Mostly not Americans.

[thehood]

And that's exactly why he fell in love with America. All his friends are from different backgrounds, different nationalities.And yet they are friends regardless.

And you do know, that there are a lot of immigrants in America, right?

[mindsweeper]

There are a lot of immigrants in most developed countries. I had friends from different backgrounds in Toronto before I moved to the US and I have it now in the US. It's neither unique nor attributable to any particular country.

I guess I still don't see it ... what does having friends of different backgrounds have to do with America, except that is where he physically was at the time?

Help me close the logic leap here ... is the idea is that it wouldn't happen anywhere else? Or that Roberto is just associating himself with the country where he was relocated to by Xavier?

[tugrul]

I'm not impressed by the American idea that they're the ideal melting pot of cultures either but it really is a thing.

[thehood]

I don't know about ideal, but you can't deny a lot of places in the US are a melting pot of various cultures, New York being the best known example.

It's why people here and other places point out how unrealistic it is when story set in NY has a mostly white cast.

[thehood]

If you don't see it, you'll never get it. But no, he's not saying it's unique to the US.

Either way, Berto has stayed in the US ever since he was part of the Xavier school. Whatever his reasons, he clearly decided to stay.