Vive la difference…in our Country!

When my stepfather, a man from a small homogenous Kentucky town, came for the first time to my son's school’s Grandparent’s Day, his comment was, “My goodness… that school is like the United Nations!” clearly referring to the ethnic diversity of the institution. 

My son jumped at the opportunity to “educate” Grandpa by listing the nationalities and religious backgrounds represented in his classroom.  I beamed!  My son, an elementary schoolboy, had “gotten it”!  He realized that the richness of this world is not in the sameness we share, but in the differences that we posses.

This is why, when I learned about the
defacing of property,  of one of our
foreign physician's home and the one on
DePaul University's campus, my feelings
ran the gamut from frustration to ire.