You know, for such an advanced society we in the western world tend to carry along a lot of very old and very bad habits. We have a tendency to shut away other people, even if those people are of no threat to us. This attitude repeats itself even within our "tribe". If you think of it, the concept of a foreigner is simply an arbitrary concept that illustrates your own personal ignorance. I do not mean ignorance in the derogatory sense, but ignorance as simply uninformed. Everyone and everything that we do not know is foreign. Your neighbors down the street are foreign to you. But strangely, we create this weird concept of "outsider" in our heads and so see the foreigner as something other than human. Part of the reason I am writing about this is because of the recent issues of Mexican immigration into the states. There seems to be an uproar in the "good ol boy" community about a group of people who come to this country, work some of the worst jobs with some of the worst pay during some of the worst hours. I am not Mexican, if you are wondering, nor do I have any affiliation towards that particular race… aside from the fact that I am equally as HUMAN. And that is it; we are all human on the same planet. Barriers certainly have their use but there is no land that belongs to us. We belong to the land. Perhaps I just find it ironic that a country that thrives on invasion would protest against people wanting to move here.