http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=690 The blog for Opportunity Foundation Thailand and Travel in SE Asia Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=690&cpage=1#comment-240 john badgley Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:44:54 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=690#comment-240 49 years ago my family and I moved to Oxford, Ohio where I commenced teaching in Miami University. Patricia and I, both born in Missoula, preached this sermon to our Ohio students nearly every weekend as they swarmed around our home. Even faculty needed persuading. The mid-West was very insular. Since then, the global travel bug has bitten a larger proportion of American society, and we have measurably more immigrants still vested in heir homelands, so America is clearly less insular now; however I'm surprised to learn only a third of us hold passports, and of them a significant number are new citizens. For all our changes in technology, we are a remarkably conservative society! 49 years ago my family and I moved to Oxford, Ohio where I commenced teaching in Miami University. Patricia and I, both born in Missoula, preached this sermon to our Ohio students nearly every weekend as they swarmed around our home. Even faculty needed persuading. The mid-West was very insular. Since then, the global travel bug has bitten a larger proportion of American society, and we have measurably more immigrants still vested in heir homelands, so America is clearly less insular now; however I’m surprised to learn only a third of us hold passports, and of them a significant number are new citizens. For all our changes in technology, we are a remarkably conservative society!

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