Foreign residence gave Obama the ability to see problems from multiple perspectives.

Evidence

Such a realization pops up in a number of quotes from Barack Obama, the first U.S. president to have substantial experience living in a foreign country—between the ages of 6 and 10 Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and his Indonesian stepfather. Later on in his twenties, Obama spent considerable time in Kenya getting to know the extended family of his biological father. As Obama himself acknowledges, these experiences gave him the critical ability to see problems from multiple perspectives. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2263

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2263