Wow... just wow.

Michele, you and I share at least one thing -- I'm an American husband married to an Asian woman (in my wife's case, Korean). We're both well-educated, in my wife's case to the doctoral level.

Unlike you, we live in the rural Ozarks. The culture here is radically different from where I grew up in an urban part of the Midwest, and even more different from my wife's background in Seoul.

But also unlike you, we clearly understand and identify with our national cultures. My wife's parents moved here to live with us about a dozen years ago despite speaking no English, and when he died, because he was a Korean War combat medic, we made certain to provide him the military burial honors he had earned and that he deserved. Numerous local Korean War veterans turned out for his funeral, and that was appreciated.

Many others in the comments section have criticized you for being affluent upper-class people who don't understand that most of the world couldn't even come close to living the life you live.

I want to take a different approach.

Have you considered how many benefits your American and Singaporean passports provided you when living in Hong Kong? Do you really want to deal with what Hong Kong residents face during the current crackdown by the mainland Chinese government?

We live in a free country. Due to your husband's American citizenship, you have every right to live in Portland, or anyplace else in America you choose to live. You can criticize America all you want, and I will defend your right to do that.

But never forget that it is American citizenship (in your case, that of your husband) that gives you those rights to live where you want, to say what you want, and to criticize who and what you want.

I'm not going to call you a " snooty, glorified yuppie," as you wrote in your subhead.

I am going to say you're taking the advantages of citizenship for granted. If you were a citizen of a lot of other countries, you wouldn't be able to have the freedoms you enjoyed while living in those countries.

Nations count. Citizenship counts.

Learn to be grateful, please.

A lot of other people wish they had the passports you and your husband enjoy.