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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist
watch something besides US news. Just try BBC news for starters.
If we hear "God bless America" we think we've blessed ourselves.
and God bless Canada, Central America, and South America and the American islands too. really, good ole USA stole the word "America" just for ourselves?
Our self-aggrandizing, media trust and world ignorance revolt me, and I am sure I know very little of the world.
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Our adult kids listen to the world news....as you mention above.
I'm concerned about a neighbor girl, now an adult, graduate of Georgetown University and other universities in Cairo, Egypt , Jordan and Syria....she's always been a world traveler and usually plays down the threats.........she was a Vice Consul at an embassy in West Africa where her job description was to interview the young people applying for a VISA to enter the United States. Her embassy was in a really seedy part of the city which was noted for danger.
She just spent a brief hiatus back in Vermont and now is in Cairo Egypt at her new embassy post. She's traveled all over the Mideast during her twenties......with all the unrest, I'm sure her mom is a nervous wreck.
This young woman has never been ill at ease in these place. I don't know if that is a certain naivete on her part.......but she's a global citizen.
She used to be our morning newspaper delivery girl, then began working in our jewelry store as a teenager, continued on when she was home from college.......thus, we've seen her grow up from a 10 year old Girl Scout to an almost 30 year old woman. When my husband would drive her home to our neighborhood, she always would and could see the "opposing" views of what the U.S. stand was at the time.........so not surprising that she is now interviewing these young men for Visa's to enter our country.