All partisan politics aside, it's tragic that this is how the US is being represented to the world.

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14. It's one thing to respond when someone asks your personal views.

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It's another to tell everyone to take advantage of every opportunity abroad, and to go to online forums, to educate non-Americans about how Trump does not represent America. This is, in my opinion, misguided. The world knows that Americans, through their electoral system, elected Trump, just like they elected George W. Bush twice. What Americans should be displaying right now is humility, not denial. I don't want to reveal my life story here, but I have lived 56% of my life outside the United States (in Europe, Canada, and Asia, always communicating in the local language), and I believe I understand the non-American viewpoint as well as the American viewpoint (if there is such a thing).