America’s True Power
I have recently used my ten year USA visa to visit New York City. I spent four days in Manhattan going to fancy restaurants and seeing various sites. And what struck me most was how dirty and how unimpressive the city was. I was happy to see my sister who was visiting there, but I aside from moderately better weather I couldn't see why it might make sense to leave a much cleaner and cheaper (in terms of living expenses) Montreal to go live there. Over a decade ago I would have given anything to go live in New York City. As many Lebanese and third world citizens, I have grown up with this fantasy image of America. This shining city on the hill where everything was possible. Growing up during in war thorn Lebanon in the 1980s I would look through my Television screen to see those skyscrapers and those cities where everyone was happy, where things were happening, where life was interesting. Even today, despite Donald Trump, millions around the world line up i...