I'm Not Into It!

Did our forbears not come to this continent, form this country and give their lives so that we might live differently from the old world?  Why then, must we, in this generation, attempt to conform to what the old world has become?  If the global community does not like our point of view, let us work for more understanding.  Turning from our independence to make ourselves agreeable to those countries which denied our ancestors the freedoms they carved out for us seems betrayal to their toil.  Sinking into sameness will not benefit our children's children who may someday, condemn us for our willful blindness.  The great experiment must not fail because we are to lazy to keep that which was bought with rivers of their blood, sweat and tears.