Diversity

My father's side of the family came over on the Mayflower. My Irish Nana sailed across the Atlantic on a cow boat from Ireland. My older sister's husband is Jewish. My younger sister is married to an African American with Indian blood. My next-door neighbors in my old hometown were Neapolitans who emigrated from Argentina. I have friends from every race, religion, and nation.

"Whence came all these people?" wrote J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer.

We came from everywhere and we still come from everywhere, because that is the American way.

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Because It's 2015

After being appointed Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named a cabinet of 50% women and 50% men. When asked why, the young leader simply said, "Because it's 2015."

He also included four Sikhs, one of whom will run the Ministry of Defence.

Veteran Harjit Singh Sajjan was declared a badass by the media.

The Sikh have earned that reputation as a warrior religious caste from the Punjab.

They believe in peace through strength.

Unlike the US War Czar Ashton Carter, another suck-up for the Pentagon Military-Industrial Complex.

War at any cost is their motto.

And why?'

Because in the USA it's still 1951.