From the Museum Floor, Guests Tell me of their lives

As a docent in an aviation Museum here in Tucson, Arizona, I have the honor of meeting many people from around the world who visit the desert of southern Arizona. While here, they visit an aviation museum dedicated to a unique World War II bomber flown by the American Army Air Force in Europe during that war.
    As a docent, a guide, I have the chance to speak with folks from around the world. I exchange points of view, conversation about their lives, mine, a mutual exchange of our cultures, economics, politics, their unique curiosities about Americans, and what it's like to live here.
    Almost to a visitor, they are intensely curious about us. Almost to a visitor they are happy to be here, pleasant, and enormously happy with their decision to visit America. Their intense curiosity with the War, the bomber, and how Americans think and feel is astounding. They can't get enough of it.
    Last Saturday, two Syrian couples helped close the shop with me. They were about mid thirties, two husband and wives, very pleasant, highly fluent in English and both about to move to the US. They will move here because of America's dedication to "family values." Although, they say, we have moved away from it the last decade or two, with the coming election they feel the possibility of a Republican president and more modest, conservative values in the country's mainstream may restore the richness that our country had under Reagan.
   This from two mid-30's Syrian couples who are moving here on the CHANCE that we may politically move to the right. In their own country, they admitted, after some pressing, that of course, Assad had to go. We spoke briefly about my exposure to Egyptians who had frequented the Museum briefly six months ago, right after the outbreak of the Cairo riots. They had said after Mubarak had fallen, the same henchmen were still in power. The Syrian couples agreed, " nothing has changed there, " they added. Then they agreed that in Syria, the whole organization would have to topple, not just Assad, else nothing would change. " It would be just like Egypt, and it would be chaos," they said.
   When I explained the rich fabric of my pool of international exposure inside the museum and how alike we all are, they readily agreed that the world is now - in their words a "global village." Jobs, a bad economy, lack of family values, pornography, violence, etc, plagues their homeland, Europe, and other places as well as ours. It was NOT a surprise to them the things I discussed, at all.
   The globe is shrinking. They were more cosmopolitan than I thought. More later.
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