Comments on: It’s All Connected http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2007/05/31/its-all-connected/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Wells http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2007/05/31/its-all-connected/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Michael Wells Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:02:04 +0000 http://zstation/creativeclass/v3/creative_class/2007/05/31/its-all-connected/#comment-1418 Absolutely they're going to be a major part of the future workforce, and the future of the USA, but not in just paying for Medicare. I think many people assume that Hispanics will become the new laboring and service classes. I think this is a mistaken assumption, like previous immigrants they'll add to the creative mix of the country in many fields and a lot of the next generation will be upwardly mobile. One of my son-in-laws is the son of an immigrant Basque sheepherder in Idaho. He went to U of Idaho, got a job with HP and HP sent him to Stanford for a Master's. He's now designing printers for them. Another son-in-law is Indian heritage, he's a PhD currently running public affairs for a radio chain but looking at getting back into teaching college -- American Studies of course. I don't think my family is that unusual. Immigrants provide much of the new blood that keeps the country vital. Absolutely they’re going to be a major part of the future workforce, and the future of the USA, but not in just paying for Medicare. I think many people assume that Hispanics will become the new laboring and service classes. I think this is a mistaken assumption, like previous immigrants they’ll add to the creative mix of the country in many fields and a lot of the next generation will be upwardly mobile.

One of my son-in-laws is the son of an immigrant Basque sheepherder in Idaho. He went to U of Idaho, got a job with HP and HP sent him to Stanford for a Master’s. He’s now designing printers for them. Another son-in-law is Indian heritage, he’s a PhD currently running public affairs for a radio chain but looking at getting back into teaching college — American Studies of course.

I don’t think my family is that unusual. Immigrants provide much of the new blood that keeps the country vital.

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