Culture Shock: America
by Adam & Lara on 03/15/11Coming back to America is somewhat freaky after you've been surrounded by this for a year:
Rush hour on one of New Zealand's new-fangled "motorcoach-ways."
There are new Saturday Night Live cast members (when did Tim Meadows leave?!), new booming companies (when did Google get so big?!) and a new winner in who is making us the fattest. About the only thing that didn't change was the conservative push to crush the rights of gays and union workers! Ahh, now that's the 'Merikuh that we remember!
Apart from all the new crap, there's plenty of sights that we've been exposed to in the past few weeks that you just plain don't see in New Zealand...
Apart from all the new crap, there's plenty of sights that we've been exposed to in the past few weeks that you just plain don't see in New Zealand...
Immense boxes built to facilitate extreme consumption!
Immense boxes built to facilitate extreme consumption!
Immense boxes built to facilitate extreme consumption!
Public yoga demonstrations!
Superfluous connectivity!
Old money!
Bars that don't play drum & bass that are still full of attractive people!
Needless to say, it's good to be back.
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