Culture and such

Well I planned on writing about Maria Full of Grace, but it seems that Yuri beat me to it. Tough cookie to top. :D Well here goes.
Maria Full of Grace is a movie about the struggles a young pregnant woman from Columbia endures in order to get to the United States. It has won Sundance and Berlin Film Festival awards, which is why I picked it up to begin with a couple years ago, and it is entirely in Spanish. This movie shows the harsh working conditions and living conditions of someone of little means and the lengths that a person might go to just to get out of such a life. She becomes a drug mule for some people in Columbia knowing that if one of the balloons of drugs she was smuggling burst, not only would her family be tortured for her loss of the drugs, but she would likely die. It is terrible to realize that people are willing to take the chance of death just to escape the life they are in.
Knowing what we do about the conditions of those living in such a harsh environment, it is a wonder that Americans can still be so opposed to welcoming immigrants. Like Yuri said, without immigrants, we wouldn't be were we are today. We are all immigrants in this country with the exception of Native Americans, who didn't get treated right to begin with. Every group of people who comes to America brings something that changes the culture in a way that I believe is for the better.
Whoa. That turned into a tangent. sorry.