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...Hometown: Not enough...
...idea of growing up with a unique experience, the idea of being defined in part by your hometown, has all but disappeared from American cities and is well on its way to leaving the last of the small towns and urban enclaves. Kingman’s population has eclipsed 30,000 and Waco is now a burgeoning metropolis of over 100,000 so there is little escaping the Americanization of America there...
...grew up watching my parents drink Coronas under the Arizona summer sun, a short drive from the Mexican border. I associate that light white script, even in shards, so readily with my own hometown that it is disconcerting to see it in such easy supply all the way across the country...
Sparks flew when the 10 Democrats vying for the presidential nomination met for a debate in New York City last week. But it was a lagging candidate, the REV. AL SHARPTON, who used his hometown platform to get off the best lines. "Don't be defensive about just joining the party," he counseled General Wesley Clark, the latest entrant. "It's better to be a new Democrat that's a real Democrat than a lot of old Democrats up here that have been acting like Republicans all along." Sharpton got the loudest applause...
...reveled in some aspects of life in his hometown of Orem, Utah?driving, watching basketball and listening to new bands. But, he laments, classmates there never asked about his life abroad: "I would say I was from Japan and they wouldn't care." Daniel had become?to use a phrase popularized by David Pollock, a consultant to expat communities?a Third Culture Kid, one who inherited the culture of neither parent but instead formed his own, more international outlook...