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What happened at the United Nations didn’t surprise me. After years of living and working as an American in Paris and Vienna, I’ve learned that we have less in common with Europe than we’d like to believe.

Sure, many Europeans speak English. They like our movies and our music. The kids even wear their baseball caps backwards.

But they’re not us.

Enter their homes, learn their languages, sit in their classrooms, and you’ll discover that their assumptions about the world are quite different from ours.





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