It's quite possible that beeddogs is Ukranian. Or Indian. Or Laotian. Or any number of other nationalities that I've worked with over the years. And their response might be, "if that's what an 'American attitude' means, I'm going back home." And that's just one of the many more charitable hypotheses I came up with.
It's perfectly logical they might say that. They'd probably go somewhere else if there was more money there. You met them in a working environment because they're here primarily for money.