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I have been in the electronics field for 20 years and I know first hand the new and innovative ideas that come from diversifying your workforce. Having 20 young southern white male engineers (used only as an example)sitting around working on one project can only inject so much imagination. When you have 20 Americans from different backgrounds and different ages, you have a much broader idea base. That is common sense.

It more often takes a wider range of experience to know what people from different lifestyles want or need than what you can gather from your own knowledge. Whether that knowledge be book learned or from individual experience. That is what will take us beyond the moon. That is what has brought us to the ipod age.

But what creates the issues is the fact that these 20 southern white male engineers (as ingenious as they are) must now change the way they do everyday business. They must incorporate compassion, respect, and change into their workday. Even though there are changes to be made and issues to work through the benefit far outweighs the negative. Imagine if no one ever left their hometowns. Where would you and your family be? Ireland, Africa, Europe, or Asia? How would you view yourself? Would you really care? I wouldn't really matter because you would all be the same. You would all be feeding off the same gene pool. How long would our existance take to become extinct?

Let's simply accept that our fellow humans are as capable as we. Let's accept that regardless of where we come from we are all going to the same place. We all want the same outcome. And it has to start somewhere. Immigration, Integration, Diversification.

Let's accept that as Earthlings, the farther into the universe we carry ourselves the more we need to work together and the fewer differences we will discover we have. Because when we discover other lifeforms on a different planet or that lifeform comes here, is it really going to matter to any creature on earth what color skin, what religion, or how old that person is standing next to you. No, what is going to matter to you is whether or not that person is human or of this planet.

So instead of leaving the question as is, we should move beyond it and start asking "How can we make our workplace a better place for all as a whole?" How can we make America better for Americans and its immigrants? How can we make earth a better planet for its inhabitants?

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