The United States, in many ways, is a nation founded on hypocrisy. We preach “equality for all”, but kept Africans enslaved for over a hundred years, denied women the right to vote, and promote an economic system where the wealthy benefit and the poor suffer. However, we have, and continue to be, a very xenophobic nation, we are afraid that “immigrants are going to take our jobs” – even though we are a country founded and built by the toil and sweat of such men and women. We have discriminated against many different people over the course of our great and noble history, including Africans, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, and Germans. An article entitled “Xenophobia: American Nativism” deals with this very issue.…