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To: brian h who wrote (42444)	12/4/2003 2:47:12 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Well thank you for your voice. You know it is very fashionable to complain about the US when you are born here (and extremely fashionable for some foreigners to be critical of the US in general). I think you don't really appreciate the amount of freedom we have here until you talk to someone who is living here because they are exiled from some other repressive regime. What is terrible about political tyranny is that families are split apart, people are forced to leave their ancestral homes where they lived for generations and become exiles. My grandparents came here to escape the political situation in their homeland as well. This country has a daily influx of people who risk their lives, give up all their possessions to come here but the average US born American doesn't even have a clue as to what they have by simple accident of birth. The Taiwanese made a choice for freedom from the tyranny that is Communism and for that choice they live with a daily threat and are almost like exiles in their own homes. I don't doubt they would like, in the best of all worlds, to again be part of China because it is their homeland. I just think they don't want anything to do with the remnants of Communism, political cronyism and repression that still lingers on the mainland even as they move towards a more capitalist economy. The mainland has a long way to go before the freedoms we take for granted arrive there for everyone (not just the sons and daughters of the politically well connected).