# Living in a global village.  Ain't it cool?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 1, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-in-a-global-village-aint-it-cool/767390 "2016-10-01T18:06:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-in-a-global-village-aint-it-cool/767390/1 "2016-10-01T18:06:26Z")

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In my high school, twelve miles north of here, there was one hispanic kid and three Chinese kids, two whose parents owned the Chinese restaurant (totally Cantonese and flavorless) and the other’s parents ran the totally cliched Chinese laundry (she was a couple years younger and I was an idiot who didn’t realize that she was cute and mom and dad, with a cleaner’s next to the cummuter rail station for an affulent suburb, were sitting on gold mine. They sold out. How hard is it to learn Mandarin?)? 😉

Today I cannot vote for Tammy Duckworth, half Filopina, for a third time because she is running  
to be my fricking SENATOR!

Today some dude yclept Raja Krishnamoorthi is running against some useless Pub. As far as I’m concernerd, Raja’s my boy.

Ain’t it cool?

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**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-in-a-global-village-aint-it-cool/767390/2 "2016-10-01T18:40:24Z")

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But it’s always been this way in America. Imagine what Great Grandpa felt when the Eye-talians moved onto his block, or when the President was Catholic.

I know what you mean though. The ever-increasing diversity is probably the best aspect of our country.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-in-a-global-village-aint-it-cool/767390/3 "2016-10-01T19:36:09Z")

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Grew up in a German town so I never notiiced the difference, but I know what you mean.

Married the first Methodist I met.