Americans Abroad

I have been off of DU for a few years, but I'm back now, so a reintroduction is necessary.
I moved to Japan in 1989 and lived in Osaka for almost 18 years, working as a university teacher of English (Conversation, Writing, Public Speaking). In 2001 I married a woman from Shanghai, brought her to Japan, had a son, but then in 2008 we moved to her hometown Shanghai where I took up a new assignment, teaching History at an International High School.

My first political campaign, at age six was handing out Edmund G. Brown literature when he ran for reelection against Ronald Reagan in 1966 and lost. In Japan I helped start up the Western Japan branch of Democrats Abroad and served as their chair until 2005, since moving to China I tried to stay active on line as the local authorities do not permit DA to operate. This year has seen me online against Trump almost daily. I supported Bernie during the primary and now #ImWithHer.

ShinPath is from a joke avatar name I have 'The Shining Path of Least Resistance,' unaffiliated with those nasty Peruvian Maoist guerrillas. My hobbies are watching and physically supporting futbol, especially the USMNT and my local China Super League team, Shanghai SIPG, travel (ask me about going to North Korea), and History. My workplace is the former Lunghwa Civilian Assembly Center, the Japanese WWII internment camp, described by J.G. Ballard in 'Empire of the Sun' which was later made into a movie =of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg.

My full name is Sven Aarne Serrano, and I have the distinction of being of Mexican and Finnish parentage. I have a 2nd passport, thank you Finland.