MaggieD
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You clearly didn't answer the question. What do you consider a typical American upbringing.
Also, a mentor doesn't mean that you agree with everything they say or do. My mentor growing up was an active practicing Roman Catholic. I disagree with much of the Roman Catholic doctrine and am an agnostic.
Going to foreign schools, having a stepfather who's Islamic, a mom who left him in the care of his grandparents, a father (a politically active anti-colonialist) he pined for, although he only met him once as an adult, a Communist as a mentor . . . this isn't the "typical American upbringing."