Systems

I've never been a fan of systems. While working with monolingual Spanish speakers I have become less of a fan of systems. It is very challenging in trying to explain a new system (in my case the educational system) to someone who grew up in another country with a different set of systems. I also see that all of the different systems have left many English learners without as many opportunities as English speakers. Specially in the region that we live in where there are so many people that are from all over the world!
We can look at companies as little cities or worlds even here in the Silicon Valley. Each with a social, economic, environmental and even political system. We can really examine what all of these little systems say about the larger perspective of our role in the world as one of the largest economies here in California.