@teby this is a valid observation.

Due to the civil rights movement recently in the 60s and 70s people with brown skin or ethnic minorities in the states have just recently risen to economic advantages.

Through programs lieke affirmative actions that have barred people from discriminating against ethnic minorities in universites, workplaces, and political activism, these brown skinned people like myself who you have not seen travel as widely have reached a level of education where they can too make as much money or navigate through business ventures to support a lifestyle where they can travel and live abroad. 

Before the Civil Rights acts and affirmative actions people of color were disporportionally poor and subject to violence and prejudice by what Americans including our Native American Indians. I encourage you to explore the freedom riders, the Civil Rights movement, the womens movement, and the reconcilaition in the 80s and 90s of these political implementations.

@elanvantil loved that winston churchhill qoute! lol perfect for this occasion

@litebrite as a woman please caution with what rules we impose on their own bodies

@vivane Michelle obama has addressed food deserts and regardless of the initiatives people make poor food choices. Chicago urban citizens even took an inititive to build gardens on rooftops and any available space in their concrete jungles. It was beautiful documented my time magazine and some documentaries but yet even with the cheap availbility of fruits and vegetables the local populace turns to junk food and convenience meals. 

@MIMI
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Incest, rape, sexual abuse and molestation in homes, campuses, religious institutions, and college campuses is still something American men, women, children, and various organizations combat.

Many men here are constantly attempting to belittle these issues that perpuatuate even our workplaces.....they continue to say that these issues are not so great in numbers...two years ago they had an all male panel on abortion in Congress like they did in the 70s...they will never know the experience of learning you are a second class citizen as a young girl...they will never know the fear instilled in us women as children that men can be sinister and sadistic and constantly in the threat of the violence we do not know the details of but can still feel intension...they will never experience after saying no and fighting succumbing to the violent rape hoping it will be over soon and running to report to a cop sometimes finding help but slow prosecution or little to no repurcussions for the rapist or running to police and not corroborating their stories or accdusing them of lies....never will they know the horror of marital rape and bringing to life children that were brought by beatings abuse and violation...never will they know what not having autonomy on thier bodies is or knowing the affects of what gender discrimination proliferates in our psyche....so ultimately they should not be making these decision or providing opionion that hurt these victims and further allow them not to recieve justice

I REALIZE WHERE YOUR QUESTIONS ARE VALID AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL EXMAINATIONS SHOW AMERICANS KNOW LESS ABOUT THIER GOVERNMENTS THAN CITIZNES OF THE WORLD THAT MOST AMERICANS THINK OBAMAS MIDDLE NAME MEAN HE IS MUSLIM THAT 64% PERCENT OF AMERICANS THINK ARAB AND MUSLIM MEAN THE SAME THING.....but there are some Americans that support Palestinaian cause and have helped refugees from war torn countries and understand the political and cultural spheres in order to help them.....that jsut an example of an educated and reasonable repsonse you could have transpired with respect and knowledge...........apparently you are not a reading and active citizen as I am leafing through the newspapers& magazines from America and overseas that i mentioned earlier has aided me in understanding these shperes and aided me maintaining my friendships around the world therefore
in noticing that you have not read my posts in its entirety because of your unmatching responses to them I will no longer answer to your posts.

I REALIZE WHERE YOUR QUESTIONS ARE VALID AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL EXMAINATIONS SHOW AMERICANS KNOW LESS ABOUT THIER GOVERNMENTS THAN CITIZNES OF THE WORLD THAT MOST AMERICANS THINK OBAMAS MIDDLE NAME MEAN HE IS MUSLIM THAT 64% PERCENT OF AMERICANS THINK ARAB AND MUSLIM MEAN THE SAME THING.....but there are some Americans that support Palestinaian cause and have helped refugees from war torn countries and understand the political and cultural spheres in order to help them.....that jsut an example of an educated and reasonable repsonse you could have transpired with respect and knowledge...........apparently you are not a reading and active citizen as I am leafing through the newspapers& magazines from America and overseas that i mentioned earlier has aided me in understanding these shperes and aided me maintaining my friendships around the world therefore
in noticing that you have not read my posts in its entirety because of your unmatching responses to them I will no longer answer to your posts.

I REALIZE WHERE YOUR QUESTIONS ARE VALID AFTER THE INTERNATIONAL EXMAINATIONS SHOW AMERICANS KNOW LESS ABOUT THIER GOVERNMENTS THAN CITIZNES OF THE WORLD THAT MOST AMERICANS THINK OBAMAS MIDDLE NAME MEAN HE IS MUSLIM THAT 64% PERCENT OF AMERICANS THINK ARAB AND MUSLIM MEAN THE SAME THING.....but there are some Americans that support Palestinaian cause and have helped refugees from war torn countries and understand the political and cultural spheres in order to help them.....that jsut an example of an educated and reasonable repsonse you could have transpired with respect and knowledge...........apparently you are not a reading and active citizen as I am leafing through the newspapers& magazines from America and overseas that i mentioned earlier has aided me in understanding these shperes and aided me maintaining my friendships around the world therefore
in noticing that you have not read my posts in its entirety because of your unmatching responses to them I will no longer answer to your posts.

But there are some other nations that have done Americans harm, or who would like to do them harm, and it is wise to be wary of them. And what you call a “prejudice”, other people may call a reasoned “judgment” based on fact and history.

 @Neil if you base decisions based on fact and history the Department of State has recently failed in its diplomacy wary and reasoned judgement does not include prejudice like Americans not allowing their Muslim citizens yo build mosques and worship or to single them out in schools and businesses and ridiculing thier practices that if you were a global and well read citizen would know and observe

@Neil my opinions are not based on small community of friends like you have qouted I CLEARLY MENTIONED I HAVE TRAVELED A LOT THROUGH THE UNITES STATES AND TO OTHER COUNTRIES have friendships that represent many countries of the world and have lived in so many places.....so why would you then say something that is untrue and I clearly clarified....because you are reading and intrepreting what you want which is a very American thing to do.....just to your defense instead of reading facts and information someone is feeding you....you are reading and hearing what you want...instead of reaching a bipartisan consensus you are continuing to perpetuate your ignorance and continue to not reason with people that have valid questions......for example instead of critisizing makdis you could have said

Most of all dont apologize for you observations and conclusions of our government and people. I believe in debate and especially in critiquing. Its is not only healthy but the ultimate condusive manner to unlockl progression. I appreciate all of your questions~ They were all valid and true no matter how angry my fellow Americans are!
YOU MUST SELF-EVALUATE BEFORE YOU BEGIN DEFENDING AND CRITICIZNG OTHERS
YOU MUST BE WELL-ROUNDED AND KNOWLEDGABLE IN MANY SUBJECTS BEFORE YOU DEFEND

"The great arrogance of the present is to forget the intelligence of the past."

I suggest all of you Americans that were sickeningly condescending and ignorant themselves to read up and be more observant. The top five countries in the world to be a woman (as in to live in equal pay that has great laws for sexual harrasment and rape) are in EUrope and we are not even listed int he top 20. In exams in reading, math, and science we are behind ranked number 37......and we are in a culture that is slowly falling apart while other places are booming. Apparently you are what all of these intelligent foreigners questioned.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjjynROFuI&list=WLE80FC47D10961DDB

I encourage you all to watch these videos and watch Bill maher on youtube. Insight on the American experience.