> Is it the fact that the immigrant is willing
> to pay the price of success...to do whatever
> it takes...while the natural born thinks
> that certain actions are beneath them so
> they wait for conditions to be right while
> the immigrant is willing to do whatever he
> has to get what he or she wants?

Okay... try this...

They arrive in the country and take a minimum wage job. And they are able to survive on that minimum wage job.

WHY are they able to survive on the minimum wage job?

"They are able to survive on a minimum wage job because they... (insert thing here)"

Michael Ross