But its shadow hung over me throughout my formative years.

Being a Korean guy, when I was growing up, my father and mother, we didn t really hug.

You name it, it's there. Not when I was growing up.

So somehow, growing up in Louisiana, I somehow picked up the British English version of it.

Growing up in Taiwan as the daughter of a calligrapher, one of my most treasured memories was my mother showing me the beauty, the shape and the form of Chinese characters.

I've been watching, since I grew up, the expressions of truth and beauty in the arts and truth and beauty in the sciences.

And it's this. Maybe just because I grew up in a different time, but though I often disagree with Republicans,

WASHINGTON, DC I grew up in the shadow of World War II, and at the dawn of the Cold War.

Growing up in India in the 1980 s, our lifestyle was very different from today s.

NAIROBI As a child in rural Kenya, I was a secret admirer of female genital mutilation.

When I was growing up in the 1950 s and 1960 s, world peace was based on the nuclear standoff between the US and the Soviet Union.

NEW YORK Growing up as a child during the Korean War, I knew poverty first hand. I saw it around me every day I lived it.

Young woman... either you have been raised in some incredibly rustic community... where good manners are unknown... or you suffer from the common feminine delusion... that the mere fact ofbeing a woman... exempts you from the rules of civilized conduct.

When I first went in there, I walked into the freshmen dining hall, which is where my friends from Waco, Texas, which is where I grew up

Growing up, you know, I slowly had this process realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way of things were, or the way things would be, weren't natural at all.

When I was growing up in Nigeria and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from there were always rites of passage for young men.

When I was growing up in Nigeria and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from there were always rites of passage for young men.

When I was a kid growing up in the South Bronx, inner city ghetto in New York, I was surrounded by evil, as all kids are who grew up in an inner city.

I grew up in the South Bronx, inner city ghetto in New York, and I was surrounded by evil, as all kids are who grew up in an inner city.

NEW YORK Since my teenage years, I have been fascinated by the permutations and machinations of national politics. Today, I find myself focusing on broader political trends that also help to explain global economic issues.

LAHORE I grew up in Pakistan throughout the 1980 s and 1990 s, and my parents, like parents everywhere, wanted me to be fit and healthy and to get the best start in life.

Growing up in Macedonia in the 1980s, my awareness of global politics was very much influenced by pop music, as a number of A list artists during that era released huge hits addressing political issues, some of which were considered quite controversial at the time.

Growing up in India in the 1980 s, our lifestyle was very different from today s. There was hardly any waste generated in a typical household.

Ironically, the speech was about the Saami (he had, for the first time, discovered that there was something written in books about his people knowledge that his Swedish school had never given him) That was the first time since I grew up that I realized the negative sides of my becoming Swedish.

I lived it. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy track into the mountains to escape the fighting, my village burning behind me and wondering what would happen to my family and me.