[PRCo] Re: Euro

[Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland]

James B. Holland wrote:
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>I see Not A Few Europeans on my bus  --  for those who live here in the U.S.A. for a time  (student visa, temp work visa, etc.  --  NOT  just vacationers)  I ask them where they would rather live  --  There or  U.S.A.    ----    WITHOUT    Hesitation they say  U.S.A........
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Marlene is one of my regular passengers  (so if you wish to verify this 
story, Ride My Bus  --  if she doesn't show, I know where she 
works!!)       Her husband is German, born and raised there, so with the 
qualifier of setting aside All Politics, I asked her if Mike would like 
to return to Germany to live?       """Absolutely Not  --  He  Hated  
It  There."""       Very strong language, but that is what she 
said.        Mike's mothers cousin married an American soldier so he had 
access to the base in Germany and watched American and Western movies 
All The Time.       He became single minded in his determination to move 
to the  U.S.A.  ASAP  and did so.       Started at Columbia U, finished 
his degree at SF State  --  he has been here well over three decades and 
hasn't looked back.       Marlene is Japanese American, born and raised 
in Hawaii.      She has family in Japan, loves her visits there, 
fantasizes about moving there and living in a bed of roses but Knows It 
Would Be Otherwise.       Japanese society is Highly Structured  --  she 
likes structure  --  but also Class Conscious and with her born outside 
the country, she would be a misfit and shunned!
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Not Unlike Europe  --  much national // ethnic prejudice there  --  
basis of skirmishes // wars in the last half century!

It is  NOT  that Europe, Germany, Japan, nor the  U.S.A.  are bad    
----    just appealikng to some and not so appealing to others    
----    like beauty, it is all in the eye of the beholder.


Best  Wishes  to  One  And  All  For  A  Blessed  Easter!



Jim