General Discussion

...In the early 1900s, somewhere around 1907, my four grandparents came here from Russia. What the
U.S.A. was then, it isn't now. Unlimited immigration to anyone who could read, (maybe different in early
1900s, jobs often available to immigrants, communities with immigrants that only spoke the original
language, and immigrants and their children learned English....sometime quickly & sometime very slowly, (or not at all).....
.....Communities were different, and of course there were differences in communication. It is hard to
imagine what it was like in 1907, but the four of them took this incredible chance of moving permanently to the U.S.A. ( Like a 7000 mile move or more..)

The U.S.A. had a reputation of being open to all who wanted to come here and become citizens. . (of course that has changed completely) They managed and survived, & had children, and then their children had children..(I am one of those)..

...Some things have NOT changed. We have freedom of religion, speech, & other liberties too. We have
education for all up to the 12th grade. We have, if one looks, an incredibly beautiful country, and some
parts are very ugly too. We have a variety of geography unmatched by any country. You want island,
we got em, You want mountains, we got those too. Rivers & streams. Farmlands. Cities. (all sizes &
shapes) We still got people from all over coming here. Someone from Mauritius lives a few homes away,
(No, I didn't know where it was either)..Yes, the U.S.A. has changed, but some parts are as diverse as
we were one hundred twenty years ago.

...Yes, it is a strange history & wide variety of people. Who could have thought that those 13 original states would grow to be one of the worlds greatest nations, and one of the nations with incredible problems. A nation with 50 states, and diversity of people and geography unmatched in the world. What a place. Take a good look and you will see whatever you want to see.