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Most of the people in the U.S. are immigrants. Our ancestors came from some other land to live here. Some came thousands of years ago, and some came this year.
Many of these groups have been disliked by the people who were already here. Through our history there has been scorn heaped on various religious groups and numerous nationalities and places of origin. These include the Irish, Germans, Eastern Europeans, Spaniards, Italians, Jews, Quakers, Catholics, Africans, Central and South Americans, Japanese, Southeast Asians, etc. Chances are that someone in each of our families’ histories was subject to disparagement based on their creed.
America is made of immigrants and each group goes through the hard transition to join the hard-working population and become a successful part of our U.S. population. Each group adds to the dynamic mix that makes the U.S. so successful and adaptive.
I hope we can continue this adaptive process with less strife than in the past.
Si Balch
Brooklin
