Women's March

**Women's March**

As a person who was not raised in the U.S., today's march left me very confused.

The question is: What is democracy? People were chanting 'This is what Democracy looks like'. Yesterday, Trump mentioned 'Returning power from Washington to the people'. Probable, the smartest placard today was the one that was along the lines 'Trump is my president and he will have to obey people's will'.

According to politicsusa.com, it was the biggest 'protest' in the U.S. history, and I am honored to have been part of it and have witnessed it with my own eyes. It was my first march/protest/demonstration, and it was very different from seeing it on the TV.

I was surprised with the creativity of all the messages people had on their placards. 'Fight like a girl', 'Ceci n'est pas in president', 'We will rise', 'Women are wall and Trump will pay'. The most common word was 'pussy', I think I have seen it enough for my entire life...

I was also shocked by the number of people blaming Trump for being Putin's puppet and saying that Putin won the U.S. election. Apparently US-Russia rivalry was much deeply engraved in people's minds than I though. While speakers were saying 'I am unapologetically Muslim-American', I would not have dared mention that I am half-Russian...

Just a random though but maybe the shortcut for less discrimination is to start calling yourself 'American', without any prefixes like Hispanic-, Asian-, Black-, etc. American people seems to have two identities: American, because they were born/raised here, and their ethnic one, depending on where their descendants are from. When I first came to the US, last September, this was what confused me the most and I am still figuring it out to be honest.

My struggle to understand the U.S. continues

P.S. I still cannot believe Climate Change and LGBTQ rights pages have been deleted from the White House website....