Ok, ok, I know I'm not the "real" gringo or even the only one, but I am authentic.  By age 17, I had lived in 9 countries, visited 5 or 10 more, and I was fluent in 3 languages, with passable skills in 2 or 3 more.  I am an American with a Brazilian mother and I have great love for both of these countries and others. 

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For those of you flag-waving Americans, I have bled for this country on international playgrounds around the world and am more patriotic and appreciative of this country than most Americans.  At the same time, I have an excellent perspective about how the rest of the world views our country and our people.  As an adult, I've worked for several American and European multinationals in more than 20 countries across North, South, and Central America, as well as much of the Caribbean. 

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All of this has given me unique (and I think balanced) perspective on different cultures in our hemisphere and how they impact key topics of today:  Immigration, Nationalism, Illicit Drug Trade, Technology, Music, Food, Foreign Aid, Politics, and my primary passion of Economics.  I have also worked in Technology for over 20 years and been at the forefront of major new technologies like emergence of the consumer web and dial-up services in the 1990's, the evolution to high speed internet and the mobile web, blockchain, and now Artificial Intelligence. 

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