It hurts me to say this ...

[DFW]

24. I'm not there yet

After all, I live in a country that perpetrated one of the worst crimes against humanity, and that was less than a century ago. It took a total devastation of the country to stop it, and it took an international community led and inspired by US, the United States, to set them back on a path to where that same country is now the number one destination where refugees fleeing South Asia, the Middle East and all of Africa want to come.

I make no bones about where I'm from, as well as the misery that we are also capable of creating. There's no use in denying it, just ask my German wife. We got our daughters dual citizenship at birth, and they did so for their children when they were born. I learned to speak eight other European languages than my own native English, both to facilitate work and travel, but also to be able to show my European colleagues that Americans can be just as interested in their culture as they can be interested in ours. It works.

Ignorance is our worst enemy. Ignorance of science, ignorance of other cultures, ignorance that religion does not equal truth (that's why they call it "faith" and not reality), ignorance that we are NOT born better than others, and ignorance that everyone is NOT given an equal chance at birth.