As the World Changes, we are all part of the whole.

Having been born in France to a French father and a German mother and having lived in France and Germany and traveled to many places in Europe, I see myself as a world citizen, not so much just as a US citizen even though I obtained the US citizenship and I love America for the most part. I really find it odd that a person must have a citizenship.

Are they afraid that if more people saw themselves independent of a national citizenship they lose control over them?

What if I simply wanted to be a citizen of the world? Why do country governments want to take ownership of a person, why do they try to say that you are not patriotic, if you don't fall in line with traditional doctrines. What are they afraid of? What is wrong with loving and learning about the world, other countries, other peoples?

That does not imply that I agree with all these other countries and like everything they do, but it opens the door to dialogue and understanding, when you learn about them and that is a good thing in my book.

I am far from being a person that glorifies other cultures. I was raised by a step father who was an Armenian from Turkey and I learned lots of great things about Turkey because of him, but also not so great things. The patriarch attitude toward women and girls under which I suffered as a child for example. The sexism so to speak. Bad people live next to good people all over the world.

I praise and I criticize anyone and everyone, if I feel I have to do so in order to bring attention or speak my mind, and I back it up with facts, that's what I try to do.

I like a lot about America but there is plenty not to like too. I have lived in other places so I see things from different perspectives. Sometimes when I meet people that lives in one area their whole live, never traveled, I find that they can be very prejudice and boring really. I really feel a bit sorry for them. You have one life to live and the vessel is so empty at the end of the journey.

I honestly can't say that there is any country in the world that I think is GREAT or PERFECT. All countries and cultures have the same common threat that often ruins everything. "TRADITIONS"!

There are nice, fun, innocent traditions that make life colorful and exciting and differentiate one country from another. But many "Traditions" are nothing more that actions based on prejudice and ignorance and superstition, that involve abuse and oppression of some life-form, race or the opposite or other sex.

These "Traditions" are upheld and spread by, as I call them "The old Guard" who is actively brain washing innocent children in to their thinking, and the as I call them "willful silent" of the world, who are inactive and stand by out of fear or inconvenience, let things happen.

I won't count off all the "Traditions" that belong on the trash pile of History, if you follow me you figure it out, or all the countries that have them because the list is too long, just think of a country and you probably right, starting with your own.

The indoctrination in to these horrible "Traditions" takes place on the family table at dinner time, activities during so called family time, activities during vacation time, in our heads where we abandon compassion, logic and common sense, and when we don't stand up and raise our voice to what we know to be wrong. Silence is as destructive as actions are, inactivity is complicity.

I am encouraged by the young faces in the crowds all over the World that I see, especially of Animal Rights Activist groups, the children that are fighting too, standing next to their parents, generations fighting for the planet, the flora and fauna that is part of their future.

It gives me great pleasure and hope to see that.