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One of the reasons a lot of Americans find Obama oddly foreign is
that he had an oddly foreign childhood: his formative years were spent
in Indonesia. His half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born there. The
rest of Obama's childhood was spent in Honolulu, a Pacific Ocean
capital soaked in East Asian culture.
What's this got to do with Britain, or indeed with Europe? Plenty.
Obama is the first US president who was raised without cultural or
emotional or intellectual ties to either Britain or Europe (or the United States).
The British and the Europeans have been so enchanted with 'America's
first black president' that they haven't been able to see what he
really is: America's first Third World president. [full]
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