It's pretty nuts to be sitting in downtown Kyiv and watching images and news of the protests gearing up in America. Seeing photos today of supporters of undocumented workers was uplifting today. I hope the national dialogue changes to one of inclusion. And not into a nation-wide race riot.
All the rich people, poor people, every people who are afraid of the influx of immigrants in America need to look in the mirror. America is a nation of immigrants. We can see it in all of our faces.
And we always will.
It's time to respect ourselves, our ancestors, and those living and dying everyday trying to make a life for themselves in America--or anywhere.
Living in another culture, being the outsider, gives me a perspective I wish more people in our country, our island, had.
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