With the rise in the number of immigrants who enter the United States with a college degree, Americans find themselves increasingly challenged by the after-effects of increasingly free people across the globe. Similarly, with others across the globe — in Asia and rising Africa — eager to embrace education and the costs of rising to the challenges of this century set to see 20,000 years of change, says futurist-scientist Ray Kurzweil, Americans must likely reframe or redefine what it means to be “equal” in a world that is massively interlinked by global trade, immigration, economic and political policies, environmental concerns, and more. While many Americans continue to define “equality” in terms of rising to the level of “the white man,” some white people now complain they are losing footing that they have enjoyed in this nation’s 245 or so years.
