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View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community
I grew up for 17 years in Mali and Burkina Faso, as the son of Christian missionaries.
People always asked me whether I felt "persecuted" for my faith (at the time - I'm agnostic now) and I never did. Never once was I hated for being different.
When I came to the US a few years back, I noticed I started watching what I said around certain people, for fear of coming accross as prejudice or unaccepting. We're very sensitive to that over here, and people here assume it's the same in the rest of the world.
I don't know when this country went from welcoming to being mistrustful of outsiders and "different" people, but it feels as though the old America, cognizant that it comprised of immigrants, is gone.
There's nothing here!