America is a land of succesful immigrants. From Andrew Carnegie, Albert Einstein, Levi Strauss of Levi's jeans, Nikola Tesla, Jerry Yang of Yahoo, Tony Hsieh's parents of Zappos, Andrew Grove co-founder of Intel, Sergey Brin of Google, Steve Chin of YouTube, Forever 21 owner Don Chang, Liz Claiborne, Sun Microsysyem founders, and many more.
For more than 200 years, America is a land of American Dream. It created a freedom to prosper and to be innovative not seen in any other parts of the world. In the old world, it was a system of kings, lords, serfs and peasants. Your destination is sealed by birth. You have no choice about your destiny.
But the Founding Fathers experimented and through America, created a new world order. A world of freedom, liberty and individual pursuit of happiness, mediocrity or failure. Instead of being born into your destiny, you create it by ambition, hard work, innovation and the American spirit of can-do-attitude, making America the "land of the free" and "home of the brave".
By having the American mindset, anybody who shed their old nationalities can become an American. Because America is not skin color, it's a world view. It's an attitude of the mind about love for liberty, individual freedom and pursuit of personal dream.
But nowadays, immigration has become a government weapon for securing voters. Thanks to Hispanics, Obama got reelected. Today, instead of immigrants shedding their nationalities to embrace the American dream, they are told to keep it, not to assimilate, not to aspire, not to learn to speak English as main language and most of all, to view the government, through the Democrat party, as the daddy and provider of that American Dream. The Democrat party has mastered the art of taking the low income immigrant voters by promising them goodies in exchange for votes. The Founding Fathers warned of this. Americans voting not to protect equal rights but to receive equal things. A sad twist to the original American Dream, thanks to the Democrat party today.
Copyright 2013 Ketchie V. Schauf
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