Brown Motion

Age being what it is I cannot exactly place where I came across an article that compared the benefits and disadvantages of having an open mindset vs. being closed off from other ideas and cultures. While America has had a long and capitalism based tradition of inviting the minds from outside its borders to make a home in this country same cannot be said for many nations across the planet.  What makes Switzerland a Switzerland or Japan Japan is fundamentally based on the idea that they are essentially a monocultural and monotheistic walled off society. It is therefore unusual to smell Desi Ghee in Switzerland housing as it will be to hear Bollywood music in Osaka. There is a rare individual who I know that has migrated to the above mentioned countries in the last couple of decades to make a permanent residence (as permanent as permanent gets these days).  Marrying an incumbent citizen is a path to do it but then again its not something I have encountered much of. I...