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In response to "Andie, I was stuck in B2. I don't disagree with you, but we aren't the most enlightened place in the whole world. We still had a lot of racist sentime" by emoticripple

I can't think of another Western country that has elected a leader who doesn't have a European background

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Nov 6 '08, 12:58

Not Australia, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain etc etc...

And in France, Sarkozy's appointment of women of Arab and African descent to his Cabinet was seen as ground-breaking.

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most of those countries are ... European though. -- nm - Andie Nov 6, 13:00 1
- also, don't get me wrong, Obama winning *is* ground breaking... - Andie Nov 6, 13:06

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I can't think of another Western country that has elected a leader who doesn't have a European background

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