Benefits Of Moving To America

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Have you ever been outside of your own country? I have had the privilege to go outside of our country, and travel to Jamaica. America’s gift to my generation is the privileges, we have in America. We are so used to having these privileges that we take them for granted. I have had the privilege to go to Jamaica, and got to experience things that I have never experienced in my life. One privilege that we have in the United States that Jamaica doesn’t have is equal rights. So, when I went to Jamaica we rented out a villa at this resort and across this resort were houses where they were just 5 pieces of metal and there were generations of people living in that one tiny house. Then, there were the nicer houses and I realized even the nice houses

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