Did the Paris experience make me more broad minded?

In addition to my two years in Paris at ACP, I grew up in England attending English boarding schools as a kid and then switching to the US Forces high schools for grades 9-12, so I grew up both as an expat American and an “embedded” foreigner in the British schools system. So I was given a rather unique opportunity to view my fellow Americans through a foreigner’s eyes. But most of my fellow alums at ACP were military kids who, while they often lived in little Americas on US bases, were also exposed to many foreign countries and cultures in a way that kids raised and educated in the US were not. So this is a bit of a mixed theme but revolves around the question “how has living abroad changed your thinking about America’s role and behavior abroad especially your time in Paris at ACP?”

Peter D'Aprix '64-'66