https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/05/10/afterthought/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Mon, 13 May 2013 20:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/05/10/afterthought/comment-page-1/#comment-68264 Mon, 13 May 2013 20:18:32 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2354#comment-68264 I have lived in Ghana for over two years now and never had any such anxieties. Of course I have never been invited to any parties at the US embassy. It sounds from your description that you were considered foreign not because you were from the US, but because you continued to live as a foreigner rather than going native. This is part of the fact that liberals like yourself despite all your rhetoric are generally not comfortable in majority non-white environments. This is not true of conservatives as is evident by the very large number of evangelical Christian missionaries living here as equals with Ghanaians. It also maybe Zimbabweans are less truly accepting of foreign born people than Ghanaians. But, I have never felt singled out for being an American or White. Students and faculty here (I live on campus) identify me by name, Dr. Pohl not a representative of Obrunistan.

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