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No one at any point has heard or read the word "american" and ever thought maybe they're talking about people in Canada or Mexico in the same way that a european is someone from the whole continent. It's just not how people refer to it. Never have.

The first article has the chutzpah to blame “formative years” for why men are “walking away from the workplace” after getting “jaded” by seeing “low wages and high unemployment”

Second article bemoans the loss of “hundreds of thousands of workers” due to the end of TPS for Haitians and other migrants, “sparking panic in healthcare, hospitality, construction, manufacturing, and food processing.”

So what you’re saying is, native-born Americans can’t find jobs, and we’re going to blame them for that as if it’s a matter of them not wanting to try, with no evidence that this is the case; meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of jobs are currently being taken up by migrants who have no right to be here in the first place, and the general public is supposed to be on the side of the job-stealing migrants?

He gives up and moves to the west coast, the big city.

Interacts with the Chinese in California, eventually meets some mongolians.

They swap stories, and he decides to cross the pacific to China en route to Mongolia.

You have a fish-out-of-water chapter about a cowboy in China. Maybe explore the fallout from the Boxer rebellion. Maybe have him interact with other European expats in their special juristiction enclaves. These expats might discuss the great war, which seems so distant.

Being out of his element, he doesn't seem to notice the rising social tension at first, but he slowly starts to notice more and more open violence characteristic of the warlord era.

More murmuring about the war. Something big about Russia pulling out of the conflict.

Continues on his journey to Mongolia

Things are breifly calm, he feels like this is where he finally belongs.

Runs into the White Russian troops, they originaly think him to be a russian deserter or red spy, only to learn that he is American, but not part of the American expedition forces.

A moodboard:

That said, these tags were what I needed to hear:

we're all gonna make it