“Liberia presented more opportunities for growth then the U.S., Jefyne Bates explained the reason she left the United States for the West African Country. “I was tired of corporate America.” Bates, who had worked in the U.S. banking industry, found climbing the corporate ladder(in America) to be a daunting task. Liberia, she says, offered moreroom to grow professionally. Bates was born in America’s mid‐west to Liberian parents. Growing up, she says that she did not learn much about the countryher parents referred to as home. According to Bates, her parentsdid not talk much about the country until she was much older. She no idea what it was like. Bates, like many young people raised by Liberian parents in the America (after 1990) knew little about the country except that it was plagued by brutal civil wars and unrest for over a decade. Around age six‐teen, she visited Liberia for the first time. For Bates, the trip was very educational. According to her, Liberia appeared to be “a place that was more or less (the) survival of the fittest.” She says that the country had many opportunities. However, they were not easy to come across. One had to be able to navigate around various obstacles in order to reach or find them. But opportunities were there.
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