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This whole "looking French" criticism of John Kerry by Republicans is bugging me. How does one "look" French? It's not like looking Chinese; French people look like a lot of other Europeans. I couldn't accurately tell a French person from an English or German person by looks alone if you paid me.

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It makes me sad to hear about things like this, because I know you're right: our election does affect you, and we might choose someone who decides you are building weapons of mass destruction and need to be liberated, and there's nothing you can do about that.

I just... I hope people in other countries realize how divided America's political culture really is, and how greatly that divide has increased in the last term. For the most part Americans care about the same things, but we different in our approaches to ideology and its place in politics, and what that means to us personally. And because America is so big, with so many people, we've developed or acquired differing cultures within our overall culture, and those cultures have their own view on what America's government is and should be, and they pass that down to their children.

So you have me, a kid raised by liberal parents in the most liberal part of California-- the Bay Area. And I'm about to move to Irvine, the central of Conservative Southern California.

It's like this anecdote a guy in my biology class last year told me-- that he was on a train in Europe (I don't remember which country he said he was in, but it might have been an Eastern European country), and he was seating next to someone who kept asking him why he elected Bush. And my friend spent the whole conversation explaining to him that he lived in California and voted against him and had nothing to do with his being elected.

Sometimes I want to run around to every country in the world and pass out fliers that say "Bush is not the face of all America. In fact quite a bit of us don't like him at all and know we can do better."

I suppose most educated peoples do know that, but I think about it a lot, and about the people in poorer countries that get a lot of anti-American sentiments and tie that to anti-Bush sentiments and I just want to explain that I'm trying, I'm really trying, the only way I can, through my vote, to dissasociate Bush from myself and the other Americans around me.

::sigh::

I think I went on a tangent there, sorry...