Whether or not you voted for him or like him, Pres. Obama's election created a new era in this country in terms of race relations. Just 30 years ago, in many of our lifetimes, the idea of an African American president was considered an impossibility. Thankfully, we've come a LONG way since those days and I hope we are finally becoming truely "color blind,"

From the outside looking in, it appears to me that the issue of race is unusually fraught for Americans. Of course I am gauging this from what I have seen on film and TV, and not from experience. However, that is how you choose to present yourselves as a culture. In my own country I notice that people are unwilling to date, or see their loved ones date, outside of their socio-economic group regardless of race, and I wonder if that is at the root of what looks like voluntary segregation? America seems like such a hodge podge of ethnicities, where do you draw the line at who is too brown/pink to go to a movie with? You all sound American to me.