Mike,

>>The american society, norms and values are not the only viable (nor the best IMO) the world should reflect to.
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>Why should I look outside the American society? This is where I live and this is where I always will live. I would rather just live my life in our apparently dysfunctional American society.

If that is your feeling, I'm just fine with it, as long as you don't start big mouthing about other societies and telling them how to run theirs.

Walter,