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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]People who have lived overseas may more readily see the value in the IB program because at a very visceral level they know what it feels like to live in a place where a culture other than their own is dominant -- and learn to adapt[/quote]

I've lived abroad. The irony of the above statement is that other countries are generally more narrow in their thinking than we are.......[/quote]

I agree that they can be, depending on the country and the issue.  The thing that living overseas does is introduces you to the harsh reality that the US is not the "best" at everything and that there is more than one way to do things.[/quote]

You are kidding, right?  You really needed to live abroad to understand this?  Sorry, but this seems like such a junior-year abroad mindset.  Makes me feel like the perfect IB candidate would probably be Gwyneth Paltrow. [/quote]

Maybe to someone who hasn't lived abroad, but PP is exactly right.  And the thing is the majority of American's, plenty of them very well-educated, don't understand this, jr. year abroad or not. [/quote]

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