"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe
place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
~ Maya Angelo
I had many reasons for leaving the USA and moving overseas. One
of the big reasons was, because of traveling outside of the USA
a lot in university days, I began to realize that the story (brainwashing)
about the USA being the "Greatest Country on Earth" (that we were
all taught in school) wasn't exactly true.
The propaganda involving American exceptionalism and how "we are
different (better)" certainly wasn't true either.
Many people's of the world are proud of their countries (rightly
so) and think they are living in the best country in the world...
I've met many those outside the USA. Before I had met these people,
I was under the impression that everyone was desperately trying
to find a way to escape their country and get to the USA...
Maybe trying to escape to the USA was the dream of most people
during World War II. It's not that way today. In fact, it seems
that it's definitely become the opposite of that today; American
people are trying to leave the USA.
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