On Jun 7, 2004, at 9:41, the Mouzons (Debbie in Florida) wrote:
I'm sure
each person is proud of the country they are from. I would like to hear
from people just one thing about your homeland that you are especially
thankful for. I know it may be hard to limit it to just one thing, but
what do you like best about being a(an)_____?
Being 3 shades of gray myself (half Polish, half Jewish, transplanted to US for the past 31 yrs)... :)
When I was a child and pre-teen in Poland, I was thankful for the security of everyday living... Nobody had to worry about basic survival needs; if you were sick, a doctor came (for free) and most of your medicine was free too. And nobody was ever *hungry*, though we often went short of this or that.
When I was in my late teens and early twenties (also in Poland) I was thankful for having enough brain power to be able to learn how to go - safely - through life in a zig-zag line: when to "duck", and when to be defiant, and how to "play the system" to the best advantage.
Now that I'm here... I guess I'm thankful for being able to bitch, *in the open*, about the bad parts of *both* systems (while, in Poland of pre-'89, only US was open to critique)... <g>
I'm also *still* grateful for the lessons I learnt, in Poland, in the "stage 2" period... They may come in handy soon, even in US.
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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