ROB WOUTAT | Assimilation and Acceptance of Immigrants

Few articles about immigration start with our origins in East Africa. This is interesting. - - Donna Poisl

by ROB WOUTAT

Before reading this column, it will help to remember that for about 100,000 years, ever since our origins in East Africa, we humans have been on the move.

We spread first into the Middle East, then Central Asia and Southeast Asia, crossing rivers, deserts, and mountains, and eventually oceans to find food, to flee from droughts and floods, to escape from hostile neighbors or oppressive societies. It has always been a move from poverty toward plenty, from danger toward safety, from constraint toward freedom.
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