It lets you understand the people who are still in it. Which is quite fortunate when they're related to you.
Exactly. I struggle enough as it is! I know Andrew and most my friends struggle even more, because they (by and large) fit in with their families better than I do with mine. And I think a few wonder how somebody like me was raised by an environment like that. I wonder myself!
What a wonderful phrase that is: it is an arms race! I can only imagine the withering looks I would get if I tried to explain this. You're absolutely right: you don't need to leave the country to find these things weird. Indeed, when I was trying to list American weirdnesses at the beginning of this, I had a really hard time finding anything even reasonably American; everything was in smaller, concentric, circles: first Rural, then Midwest then Actually Living on a Farm. I didn't want to include too many of those, though, because I'm well aware that those things are not really typical of America in general.
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Date: 2007-07-27 06:37 pm (UTC)Exactly. I struggle enough as it is! I know Andrew and most my friends struggle even more, because they (by and large) fit in with their families better than I do with mine. And I think a few wonder how somebody like me was raised by an environment like that. I wonder myself!
What a wonderful phrase that is: it is an arms race! I can only imagine the withering looks I would get if I tried to explain this. You're absolutely right: you don't need to leave the country to find these things weird. Indeed, when I was trying to list American weirdnesses at the beginning of this, I had a really hard time finding anything even reasonably American; everything was in smaller, concentric, circles: first Rural, then Midwest then Actually Living on a Farm. I didn't want to include too many of those, though, because I'm well aware that those things are not really typical of America in general.