We seem to have read different articles. Is Spain not part of western culture? Not that the author seems to be speaking for his wife as having gotten advantages

We seem to have read different articles. Is Spain not part of western culture? Not that the author seems to be speaking for his wife as having gotten advantages from this, or claiming she came from a disadvantaged background, but that he himself feels like he benefited from struggling through the initial language issues. (The adopted daughter came from outside Western culture, but he doesn't so much attribute her current thriving to being brought to the US as much as to going through three different in-US highschools and then going to college in Spain.) And there's a pretty straightforward plausible cause->effect there: if you're on equal economic and opportunity-having footing otherwise, initially coming in as an outsider starts you off ahead in terms of eventually being able to see things from multiple perspectives. I do think the article suffers from not acknowledging the active difficulties suffered by many forced outsiders in particular - vs his moving to another western-culture-country where there was a language barrier but not, say, a history of lynching people like him - but that's different from what you see him doing. I think he has a blind spot between the difference between his "outsider" experiences and a true "disadvantaged" experience, I don't think he's putting words in the mouth of the disadvantaged as so much as glossing over them and ignoring them. (I.e., he's a conservative pundit. :| )