There's no question that with the advances in technology, travel, communications, educational opportunities and access to information, the world has become smaller and more available to every one of us. While many people tout "made in the USA" or "buy local", we are being bombarded by products made elsewhere and imported into the United States.
It has to be a very complicated economic balance with tariffs, product quality standards and pricing considerations, and further complicated by immigration policies, sanctuary and asylum requests, student and work visas and any number of other factors. When I see different languages on products, the signage in hardware stores on government forms and even election materials, it becomes clear that our country is more of a "melting pot" than it has ever been. Granted, we are a nation of immigrants in that when we look at our family we find that virtually everyone can trace back to a parent, grandparent or greatgrandparent or beyond who came here from another country. Less than 2% of our population can claim to be "natives" and even they would have to admit that their ancestors may have come from somewhere else originally.
We are not unique in our diversity. Every country faces the same situation with their demographics, their import/export balance, the fluidity of population, and the world at their doorstep. The bottom line.........we need to learn to get along, get over our prejudices and our desire to always think we are in the right. Stop the bickering.
Maybe our Congressmen and Senators can resolve to take the lead in "getting along with each other" and do what is right for the welfare of our country and the world. Is that a possibility.............? Let's get back to some basics........decency.......dignity.........
honesty.........respect........peace and quiet..........
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