I recommend not traveling here. If you must, stick to greater urban areas and national parks. Stay out of the interior! Rural and outlying exurban areas could be dangerous for anyone who doesn’t appear to be white, English-speaking (but not too educated), and completely conforming to conservative values.
I have. They didn’t taste like much.
Jeffrey Wright. Just one good performance after another.
Everybody’s holy book says everyone else’s holy book is ballocks. I submit to you that this provides excellent anecdotal evidence that all of them are ballocks.
I’m in California. If you feel the need for a defensive weapon, the most you can get away with is a plain, wooden cane from a drugstore. Even then, if a cop thinks you don’t need that cane, you’ll get the shit beat out of you and the stick taken away.
Ask me how I know.
I work from home three days a week ( in summer it will be two with Fridays off), so I can manage my executive dysfunction fairly well–unless the boss gets a boner for deadlines. That happens typically once a year.
My boss is a little upset that I won’t accept his structure this summer–four 10-hour days. I chose to use some vacation time instead. That’s my structure.
In the states anyway, our sense of community has almost vanished. Rather than concerning ourselves with improving society, we have become a nation of de facto sovereign citizens, all of us competing with everyone else.
Even common courtesy has gone down the shitter. On the roads, at retail establishments, everything is a fight. Shove your way past everyone or you’re weak.
My cats.
They made me say that.
One-half a Darth Vader.
I agree with the general consensus, there is no “white” culture per se, uness you’re talking about the bad craziness of nationalism.
What I think OP means is “plain vanilla American culture.” And that’s the thing. The US is so huge, so comparatively young as a nation, that it’s hard to even have a culture.
Furthermore, anywhere you go in the states, you have pretty much the same TV, same radio from central locations, news anchors from the same school, holding the same rip ‘n’ read newscast. The corporate world has skin in this game. Keep us homogenized and you keep us focused on the consumer culture they want us to have.
That said, we Americans who don’t identify with any ethnicity do have cultures, but it’s based more in what we do. Bikers, goths, snowboarders, rail fans, Trekkies, and then some. Those are all cultures.
Then too, when we try to do culture, because of our media obsession, it often becomes a parody. Case in point, I once went to an Oktoberfest here in California. I saw people wearing stereotypical “German” costume, playing a Polish-American wedding game (Chicken Dance) and singing an Italian children’s song (Rooki-Zooki). That’s about as all-American as it gets.
Technical, but no mention of the social, psychological, or emotional aspects of sexuality.
Female orgasm was literally never discussed or even spoken of. This was in the very conservative city of Anaheim, in very conservative Orange County, California.
I’m on the autism spectrum, with very low support needs. My health care provider has that in my medical records. Now I’m worried that I’m going to disappear into some camp, and my wife will never know what happened.
I was at a medical appointment, and the (very cute) nurse was named “Kaelea” pronounced Kaylee.
Does it weigh the same as a conundrum?
A sense of community, at least in the states. We have become a nation of de facto sovereign citizens, everyone competing with everyone. A society can’t last long without social responsibility.
As they got more and more out there on pre-MAGA conservative media, the unhinged hits just kept on coming. But probably the most unhinged was their belief that “90 percent of Black males are in a gang.” Sad.