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In Indonesia, it is still unthinkable for a “non-indigenous”, non-Muslim, person to run for president. A third generation Chinese-Indonesian Christian, for example, is still not seen as a suitable person to hold that office. It is a credit to the US people that Barack Obama is one of its presidential candidates, and that his racial background is not an issue, regardless of whether he will actually become the president of the USA. On the other hand, however, this is the same people that have allowed an obviously incompetent, untrustworthy person to sit in the Oval Office, not just for one, but two terms. This, I think, is the paradox of the USA.
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