Culture in the Blender

This morning when I switched on the BBC, the first thing I saw was an Al-Arabiya interview of Obama. The words coming out of his mouth - that he’s there to listen first, and that the United States all too often commands - were words I never thought I would hear in a hundred years [...]

So now it’s over - the world has its first third culture kid president, and Americans their first Black president. I have nothing to add to the ramifications of Obama identifying with the American African American community and the history of racism in the US. Others can say far more consequential things on that (important) [...]