Do you ever think about the saying "the more things change the more they stay the same" because I have been.  I have been watching the Walton's on both GMC and the Hallmark channel.  The other day one of the episodes was about Hitler and what he was doing in Germany.  One of the characters talked about how her husband had been German and after the war had to hide that fact because people in America didn't like or trust Germans.  My ancestry is half German so it just blew my mind that he had to hide that in order to live in this country.  But then I thought of how those of Japanese decent were treated after Pearl Harbor was attacked.  How Muslims are now treated because of 9/11.  And so on.  For a country that prides itself as having so many freedoms it sure can be narrowminded can't it?  And I know this probably happens in every country, we judge others.  It's human nature.  I just wish we didn't jump to the whole guilt by association thing.  I wish we would learn from the past mistakes we as a nation have made.  None of this they did this pointing the finger thing, rise above it.  Do the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do not because you may or may not get something out of it.  Treat people like you want to be treated.  How hard is that?  And sadly I know it probably won't happen in my lifetime.  Heck we can't even get the two major political parties to try and meet halfway so why should anyone else?  But a girl can dream, can't she?