America: It brings out the worst and best in people

Reflections on the immigrant perspective by an Italian-American romantic

As an “off-the-boat” immigrant as well as an individual that has lived both in the US and abroad, I tend to see things through a somewhat broader lens. Professionally I live in the world of information technology but my heart often pulses to passions outside of STEM. I feel comfortable listening, attentively, to days of college lectures on literature, poetry, classical languages, and the intersection of politics and history.