zstep18
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I truly hope America never does "catch up" to Asia and Europe. Believe it or not, some of our families LEFT these places to come to America simply because of our "undeveloped" culture and civilization. At a large family gathering in July part of my family had a long converstaion about whether the Patriarch of our family would have come to the US of 2012 when he brought his family here in 1900. The general consensus was that he would NOT have left the Germany of 1900 for the USA of 2012; mostly on philosophical/values grounds. Instead, he would likely have stayed in Germany as a farmer.
But, would he have left the Germany of the 1930s and 1940s for the United States of 2012 on philosophical/values grounds?