I remembered a few semesters ago, my classmates and I as international students in San Francisco were discussing about how San Francisco was probably the most Americanized city in the United States despite of the insanely liberal label attached on it.
San Francisco is truly a unique city that represents most values that Americans said to be the heart of the country. It has such an incredible amount of support for the First Amendment.
It provides a place full of tolerance and diversity for everyone. People may disagree with gay marriage to a certain extent but it is important to be kept in mind if who someone married to is no other people's business. People may believe if many San Franciscans are being "unpatriotic" when they opposed the Iraq war. Many reasons make you believe that San Francisco will go down. You think it will go down but I do not share the same thinking. I actually sympathize San Franciscans for fighting their sole battle against the rigidness of rules and the message of hates.
San Francisco has been singled out by other Americans for being flexible and diverse and tolerance. People say San Francisco should just declare their own independence because San Franciscans are so different. San Franciscans are not "Americans." People described San Francisco as crazy and chaotic. However, if crazy means you are a pacifist and chaotic means that the city will tolerate other people's beliefs and options about what to do with their own lives, then, please, I would like to be called as "crazy" too.
San Francisco
Dec. 2nd, 09
11:03 pm
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