How I wish those who have lived under Communism were given a greater exposure to today’s mind-numbed Americans - those who listen only to ABC, NBC, CBS yada yada yada.
Yes, it is those who have lived without freedom who treasure it the most. We have much to learn from them! God bless them for being here and making this country that much better.
While my first impulse is to nod approvingly at this "great American success story", I can't escape a sense of unease about it. The author of this article mentions how the sons and daughters of successful immigrants such as your friends are failing to learn the lessons of their parents and are beginning to fall for and repeat the failed ideas of socialism.
I wonder if your friends gave any thought to the fact that the academic environment at Harvard is one of the worst promulgators, incubators and sources of indoctrination of all those failed and murderous socialist ideas which they left Russia to escape. I sincerely hope that the son they so proudly settled in at Harvard emerges unscathed as a man who still has those ideals they tried to teach him.