January 14, 2004
It's called experience.
Instapundit has a story about an American Muslim travelling to Egypt 'convinced that, unlike America, there was no corruption and hypocrisy in the Arab Muslim world and that it bore no responsibility for its own appalling condition' only to flee 'home the next week, leaving all my illusions of the Arab world in my Cairo flat. I couldn’t wait to be in America again.'
I wish all Americans, Muslim or not, who believe the worst about this country and have never experienced the rest of the world, could do something like this. The loudest wake up call to how amazing America is and how lucky we are to live here is to go live elsewhere, in particular somewhere like Egypt (or almost anywhere in the Middle East save Israel).
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yeah, i just met a girl from Brazil the other day who moved here 3 years ago. I asked her why. She said to go to a wonderful place and live a fruitful life. I joked with her that most Americans I know want to visit Brazil. And she said, quickly, that those people want to visit for VACATION. Not to live. She was in America to live here. She loves it an never plans to leave. And she travels freely home to her relatives. She speaks great English, works and lives on her own with a roommate. Needless to say, the story made me smile.
Posted by: Scott S at January 14, 2004 03:51 PMI spent the first 12 years of my life in another country, and have spent years since then abroad. There is no question in my mind that, of all the places I've been, America is the finest place to live (although I've not spent enough time in Canada to be 100% sure, and I've never been to Australia or New Zealand).
So it's not a wake up call for me. It's precisely the reason I am so opposed to the Bush Administration, which is systematically destroying what makes this country so special, and for no better reason than political expediency. Shame on them.
As a side note, I've often thought of moving to Brazil. Permanently.
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