Oh great, suddenly I feel like I have nothing to write about. I've written a couple blogs in my head today, so where are they?
You know you are in America when:
*you receive the food you ordered and you gasp at its great size
*people drive so obediently and orderly
*there is an abundance of everything (you walk into Costco or Wal-Mart and can't believe the pure abundance)
*almost every young woman from 12 to 30 is showing part of her stomach (at least in Southern California)
* white people are trying to be really brown and somewhat succeeding (in contrast to Korea where everyone is always trying to be whiter)
It's funny cuz I a year ago I wrote a list like this for Korea (you know you're in Korea when...) to process some of the external cultural aspects when you first visit. I wrote it in my first semester in Korea and then later realized that I no longer noticed the very things I wrote about. But I wrote it mainly to illustrate the external things that usually strike the person who first travels to Korea from the West. And when I did this I tried to do it the other way and imagine what a person coming to the US would first notice. And to tell you the truth-I couldn't do it. I guess I couldn't become that objective. So today I realized that a year and a half later I have acquired some sense of objectivity about the US, so that certain things struck me as different or foreign.