Introspective on Migration & Culture
I am a selfish American. Really, It's true. I
enjoy a life in a country that provides me what some call life
chances. My skin is light, and my social class has given me every
opportunity for education, employment, and social services, whenever,
and wherever I need them. But now I am changing. There are
people from places all over the world that for some reason or another
are less fortunate. I have no pity for these people because they
are worth more than that. People choose to leave their homes,
where they have shared a culture all their own for many years.
Their societies were communal, friendly, and peaceful for a time.
But for all sorts of reasons; political, economic, religious, war, and
natural disasters, these very normal people are forced to leave what
they love, what they know, and who they are. They search in other
countries for employment and acceptance, they are the working poor in
search of a better life, I will embrace them.