Happy to see you again, I was just thinking of you the other day.
Still knocking them out of the park, I see,....
When do you come to North America?
We have a lot of culture, but you got to get away from the flashylight box crowd to find it.
It's slowly dying, has been for years.
Our's comes in the people you will meet and not so much the buildings.
Don't miss Silver Dollar City!
hey freebornangel, that's a good question and one i've been thinking about for some time. I thought about my value proposition as a bridge between Asian Culture and Western Culture and it makes a lot of sense for me to bring asian culture to the table as it incites a lot of curiosity, possibly quash some preconceptions in the process.
North America on the other hand I don't know that much about, and I don't have much contextual background associating it to anything that I know culturally either. That said, I do believe you are right in that it's probably more about the people and for that reason, I will probably visit and try not to force a blog out of it. Maybe it'll take multiple passes as well.
Are you saying that the culture is slowly dying? How so?
Tv is killing our culture.
It separates us from each other.
I live in a city of 1 million plus, and I've walked across town, 20 kilometers, without seeing anybody outside.
Plenty of cars, and flashing lights in the windows, but no faces.
KUWTK is becoming what passes as culture here.
Hardly a realistic expectation for the average person.
Definitely not what most of us experience.
People are losing many characteristics embodied by duty, honor, country, and the 'Murican way.
I'd be surprised if grade skoolers could even define honor anymore.
Ever since The Duke died, life just hasn't been the same.
What can you expect from a country that gave us Ed Bernays, propaganda, and the engineering of consent?
The old diners, bowling alleys, drive ins, and dime stores are all disappearing from small towns where culture grew and was defined.
Now its all corporations, and processed foods.
For most of us, anyways.
If you do come, please make your way along the Mother Road, it comes within an hour of Silver Dollar City, and about a mile from my house.
It will give you a version of the united snakes that can't be had unless you get out among the people.
Driving the mother road is what defined 'Murica, when we still had flavors in our culture, before walmart homogenized us by killing off family businesses and urbanizing our rural enclaves.
We are going into a big change, if the rumors are correct, when that blows over a window will open open to see us as we are and before abundance changes us.
I wouldn't come closer to the 2020 election, it will determine our fates for many years after.
If the deep state comes back to beat drumpf i would advise staying away.
The people are growing weary of being subsistence wage slaves so that people like the kardashians can exist.
We used to be a nation of tank men, and i doubt the flashylight boxes have succeded in suppressing that enough to withstand a tyrannical takeover of the country.
The people know we are getting a bum deal from 'the elites', i don't think they will take much more from them.
It's just not in our nature to willingly be locked into yolks.
There is a lot to see in Mexico, too.
Again, outside the tourist areas, the people are some of the best I've met.
Canada has wide open spaces, if you like those.
Too much snow for me.