Broad Borders: A Change in My Way of Thinking

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Fear has a tendency to keep people from doing the right thing more often than not; we are regularly afraid of things we know nothing about. Mexico for instance has a horrendous drug use and murder rate, and we watch CNN or FOX and chat over coffee about the horrible atrocities that happen there and quietly thank God it is not happening within our borders. The truth of the matter is the high murder rate has nothing to do with the common person in Mexico, except that it destroys their quality of life. It is the result of the power thirsty drug lords that want control of the city. Growing up in a predominately white town we had narrow views about the people who came to America in search of a better life. We specifically viewed the Hispanics as lazy and dirty people. In my early twenties I ended up moving to Yakima for a short time. Here, I had the opportunity to work with a Hispanic man who was a husband and a father of three. I realized how narrow minded I had been, this truly was a honest and hard working man that anyone could respect.

In the Americas infancy, immigrants from all continents flocked to the land of promise. The courageous men and women came to the Americas from Europe in the early years of our country where looking to separate from a government ran church. There were three groups to this church; the Puritans, Separatists, and the government; the Separatists were the group of men and women that thought the church had fallen too far from its original purpose, so they set out to reestablish their belief system. The Puritans believed things could be restored, but eventually came to America do to the churches resistance to change. The Puritans and the Separatists were both in search of a better life, a life of free...

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...America still is and will continue to be the place to accomplish the not just the American dream, but any dream.

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