To the Journal editor:

Demography is the study of humanity’s passage through the evolvements relating to the physic- at attire of Earth’s natural elements. A demographic study invades the response by individuals to the world’s regard for gender, ethnicity, racially oriented mores, and individual propensities developed by expository experiences resulting from the characterizations gleaned from ethnic historical traits. Obviously, demography must also consider the human response to environment!

The modern world has encountered much more of a need for analytic appraisal of the human composition, what with the spread of commercial/industrial influences created by the reaches of electronic expediences and the resulting changes in reliable communications. National borders are not the barriers to business commonalities they once were. At issue are the ethical standards intermingling with religious tenets traditionally locked in place by individual expression

of preference, many of which were fashioned in the moyle of post-war popular responses!

By its inclusion of ethnicities, demography can also be a part of the description of the effects of various situations occurring in any action subsequent. Thusly, the effects of political maneuvering world-wide, as components of geopolitical expressions by governments, are fair game for inclusions involving international situations of unrest!

Postulating conjecturally, one might argue the veracity of many claims of position, standards, assurances legally asserted, business ethics, product qualities, financial stability, and governmental standards different from business standards! The ownership of one nation’s installations in support of business in another nation’s physical control is a measure of international complicIty carrying grave possibilities for non-governmental legal challenges as to damages incurred as result of failed implementation, design, workmanship, materials reliability, and commercial pro- duct transported quality!

Who sets what “standard” of quality for imports the likes of which we eagerly embrace as satisfaction for such things as a full belly, or a boon to health, or worse yet, eating food prepared by captives in a totalitarian nation having no intention of ever affording their citizens the freedom we so zealously covet?

Martin Hendrickson

Munising