PhotoAs tourist destinations go, the Republic of Moldova — tucked between Ukraine and Romania — probably isn’t on anyone’s bucket list. Low skills, low wages, minimal English, lots of children and probably not the best hygiene — that’s half of my pedigree. It is an improbable yet wildly successful experiment in the transformation — by means of hope, opportunity and ambition — of holers into doers, makers, thinkers and givers. We are not talking about Haiti, El Salvador, Nigeria or any other country on the president’s insult list. Why should the president think they are any less fit to become Americans than the Norwegians he seems to fancy?

Source: New York Times January 13, 2018 00:56 UTC