Hey, don't tell me about diversity. I live in a town in California with about sixty ethnic restaurants on the main street and more colors and backgrounds of people than there are names for.

You misunderstood my statement about France. As I have said a number of times, when I was in France during the heat wave, I was never, as an obvious tourist American, treated rudely. I can't vouch for what anyone might have said behind my back, but there it is.

My point was that just moving there and even becoming a citizen won't make you "French." It's just how you are perceived. Doesn't mean they'll treat you badly, any more than Americans would necessarily treat a tourist from another country badly.

But if you are American, and move over there, I think you will still be "American" fifty years later. France isn't the only nation like that by a long shot.