India, Aug. 16 -- Kenan Orhan is a man divided between hope and dismay. "There is a great disillusionment in me in the experience of being American today," says the 32-year-old, who was born in Kansas, to an American father and a mother who fled Istanbul as a young woman, amid an economic crisis and political unrest. "My mother's family really wanted to assimilate, and became very proud of being American. As children, we were very proud too. But the America of my parents' and grandparents' generation doesn't exist," he says. "There is, for me, a great deal of disappointment. We were taught of America's exceptionalism growing up, but beyond the wealth we've allowed to be robbed from the people, and the number of bombs we've dropped on other ...