The United States has been known as a melting pot for centuries. People from around the globe have migrated to the land of the free and the home of the brave in order to find opportunities for advancement.
After Hurricane Katrina, I had the pleasure of meeting many people that were from different cultures. When I was a toddler, my parents were friends with a chiropractor who was from Canada but his wife had migrated from Russia. She often tells her story to the local high school. She tells about her push factor was that the government was extremely stern. She could no longer stand it and she stated that when she was a little girl, she would always say that she would leave Russia. Before she was 18, she was able to leave with a friend and her family. She left her mother, father and two siblings for a better life. She did not know what she was going to have to face but she had a dream that it would be better than her living conditions that she lived in. Her friends father and mother painted a beautiful picture of America and she wanted it all.
Once she settled in, it did not take long to get use to the lifestyle of U. S. citizens. She loved it. She enrolled in school and from there, she lived as though she had won the lottery! Her parents never came to the states and neither did her siblings. They felt betrayed by her. However, she felt that this was a decision that was made that formed and shaped her life for the best.
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