Last week on Monday, we spoke about people who feels inside and outside their region or country border. In this case Dr. PG used Obama and Mcain who were running for Presidential position on 2008.
Obama was born on Honolulu, Hawaii which is part of the US and where he grew up too. He graduated from Columbia University and the prestigious School of Law of the Harvard Law School. This man had been living on many different places in the US so that we can say he is fully grown on American grounds.
John McCain III was born on the Canal Zone, Rwpublic of Panama. From this point the problem starts; he is not fully "American", well that's what some people said. He went to 20 different schools, one of them was Episcopal HighSchool on Alexandria,VA; he graduated from the Naval Academy, US. and worked as a naval aviator. After all this, he moved to Arizona where he started with the political studies.
The American people though that not being born in US was a big thing because if someone wants to be the president of the US, the person should be born and live in the US so people can trust you, because you are supossed to know all the problems and all the things the country had and has, so the person will help to fix all the problems. I really think this is not a problem, because people have the right to learn new things everyday and if McCain didnt grow up in US well he did learn about the country history and problems after moving and settling to his new home in the US, but in the other hand, Obama grew up in American ground, he lived as a american teenager and enjoyed all the american traditions during his chilhood and all his family did too so this made his image look atractive to the US citizen because they felt this man had the tools needed for doing a good job as a president.
Obama was born on Honolulu, Hawaii which is part of the US and where he grew up too. He graduated from Columbia University and the prestigious School of Law of the Harvard Law School. This man had been living on many different places in the US so that we can say he is fully grown on American grounds.
John McCain III was born on the Canal Zone, Rwpublic of Panama. From this point the problem starts; he is not fully "American", well that's what some people said. He went to 20 different schools, one of them was Episcopal HighSchool on Alexandria,VA; he graduated from the Naval Academy, US. and worked as a naval aviator. After all this, he moved to Arizona where he started with the political studies.
The American people though that not being born in US was a big thing because if someone wants to be the president of the US, the person should be born and live in the US so people can trust you, because you are supossed to know all the problems and all the things the country had and has, so the person will help to fix all the problems. I really think this is not a problem, because people have the right to learn new things everyday and if McCain didnt grow up in US well he did learn about the country history and problems after moving and settling to his new home in the US, but in the other hand, Obama grew up in American ground, he lived as a american teenager and enjoyed all the american traditions during his chilhood and all his family did too so this made his image look atractive to the US citizen because they felt this man had the tools needed for doing a good job as a president.
In other case, we can use Dr. PG's story. He was born on North Carolina but then his Mother is Mexican and his Dad from Ohio! so he is a mix of races, languages and different cultures. He considers hiself half-and-half so he will be located in the middle between US and Mexico.
In these examples we can see that Obama is situated in the US with all the knowledge required, but McCain would be probably in the border between Panama and US because he has this panamenian heritage which didnt help him much during his campaign. and finally Dr. PG will be situated in the border between Mexico and US, because he has family in both countries.
In my case I can say that I'm 100% Panamanian but there is a feeling that i don't have the knowledge and needs of the country sides. It's weird how this feelings come to my mind when I start thinking about it.. Viva Panama =) i love my country!
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