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Friends from Chicago spoke of their surprise at the number of mixed couples we have here in France, saying you'd never see that in their city...

We in turn are surprised by many apparent obsessions in American society with ideas that have gotten lodged in people's heads; fixed ideas about things like features and skin color ("race") or "gender"... or "rugged individualism" -- commonly expressed as thoroughgoing conformism. Ideas that solidify into tumors. All accompanied by blind collective belief, typically in things that are radically incompatible.

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