Our all too narrow thinking costs us.

# 4124

Cuba undertook a group of institutional innovations we could have learned from, but prejudice cut off the path. Gypsies live a mysterious life of self-sufficiency and mobility. As immigration becomes a larger part of the world, we could have learned from the gypsies. But we locked the imagination to see their relevance. The same is true of the hut cultures, of the global south, where, for example, in many villages, a small circle of huts, themselves circular, create an enticing community for social interactions and the raising of children. We could have learned from all these but we have avoided the obvious.