Much of who we end up being is formed during the years between elementary school and college. During these years we are influenced by our peers more intensely than at any other time in our lives, as we transition from child to almost-adult.
During this period of her life, California-born Sen. Kamala Harris lived in Canada - not English-speaking Canada but French-speaking Quebec. Meaning, like Barack Obama, she spent formative years as an expat. One wonders if her dismissive attitude toward truth-telling and other moral matters isn't more French than American.
