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Re: David Brooks to Obama: Less of your shucking and jiving, please.
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Originally Posted by Penske 2.0
Growing up the child of a single mom, (i) in part in Hawaii, which has a tangibly distinctive culture from the mainland US, and is in some part almost third worldish, and yet where he went to the most exclusive independent school in the Islands (and fairly exclusive by standards of independent schools, excepting the east coast, which has an intensified flavor of exclusivity), and (ii) in part in Indonesia, which is a third world country and, I'll go out on a limb here, definitely has a distinctive culture as compared with the US or other "western" countries; seems sort of unusual to me as compared with the average american born in the US and even in comparison to the fancy backgrounds of the presidents of the last 60 years or so.
I'm good with celebrating diversity, and in order to do that you have to acknowledge that it exists, and it seems to me that Obama had a diverse upbringing. No?
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He's about as exotic as a fucking cheeseburger. Hawaii a unique culture? The perpetual knock on the place is that it's hideously over-Americanized. And it is.
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