The news, every day, bombards us with the bad things about the people who built this country: discrimination, prejudice, and blatant racism.

However, there are some good things to being an immigrant, varying from degree to degree, but perks after all. There had to be, for this country is founded on the people that left everything they knew and loved in the hopes of a better future.

And today, the main point is to prove that the bad things said about immigrants can actually be perks because there is a good side to ~almost~ everything.

1. "I don't speak English."

Who hasn't used this infamous technique?

Approached by an unwanted stranger? Being sold products/services that you don't want through the phone?

Well, these problems and many others are solved with a single sentence in the stereotypical accent of your country: "I don't speak English."

Though the media says immigrants are stupid because they don't speak the native language of the country they are living in now, this prejudice embedded deeply can actually come in your favor when it comes to little things like this.

However, if you are feeling particularly salty and some poor soul decided to wreak havoc on you for not speaking English, you can always ask them if they speak Sioux or Apache.

Now, it is a real treat to see their faces turn scrunch and walk away in a huff of prejudice and dust.

2. Tan

If you have a beautiful, sun-kissed skin au naturel, then, good news! You are saving around 60 dollars a month because you obviosuly don't have the need to spray tan or get into a tanning bed for that glorious complexion of yours!

Yes. People pay that much for a skin color that took you years to accept as attractive and some people just get it because they need that summer ~feel~.

3. Numbers, Numbers.

"Your accent makes you sound so exotic!"

"I wish I had your skin color!"

EXOTIC. EXOTIC. EXOTIC.

Note that the people who are saying this now are the poeple who bullied you in the 7th grade.

Well, if you counted all the "exotic" minorities, there are certainly more of us than white people.

(We can easily overtake the white supremacy).

Can you say perk?

Like that quote in Better Off Ted: "You heard the statistically average lady."

P.S. - We rise at dawn.

Though the systematic oppression is something that is unjustifiable, sometimes they are some hidden perks in-between the nasty things the internet and the media portrays of the founders of this country, because without us, the United States wouldn't exist at all or how we know it today.