And I'm always coming back to meta...

Because pingulotta pointed me to a great article about US-universalism and nationality as a privilege that a lot of Americans just refuse to see. A lot of people on my flist don't and you have no idea how grateful I am for that. But I just can't forget about how I ran into that roadblock a few months ago and had to discover that often enough all the big liberal talk about being so open to the world and being able to see behind "privileges" and "barriers" and blah is just one big blast of hot air when it's put to the test outside of the usual categories Americans put people in (race, gender, sexuality, religion).

So... let me please quote those things in the article I found most important (but I recommend you to read the whole article).

( I wish I came across that article a LOT earlier. )

And now... I will finish watching that ep of Army Wives and then finally go and see a hairdresser about the mess my hair is. Whee.