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This may sound silly to non-Americans, but from when I was a child, I mythologised America in my mind, largely through TV, movies and later music and 20th century history, so that I'd often literally dream of visiting it. When I finally did visit in 2011 it felt almost like stepping into a bizarre parallel universe, or like inside my TV or something. Everyone spoke like they did on television haha. I think that's partly why I've never been as excited to visit a country as I did the states. I think many Americans don't realise how glorified and mythologised their country is through the globalisation. When i finally did visit, however, it ceased being this unreal, mythic land and became real, sort of 'part of my world' or the world as I knew it. I'd compared touching down on LAX to going to the moon, but the more time I spent the more I saw the mundane side of life there. It was still an amazing trip, but I think the US is unique in that sense, it's so well known globally and mythologised that people feel that sense of awe visiting it.
Fortunately for the human species, American culture has steadily lost it's appeal and influence on the globe over the past two decades. American music is still big but Hollywood has been exposed. There is a reason the only people still immigrating to the USA are uneducated and hungry.
Leaving the US is always strange like i am going back in time, everything is so old, small and not so clean.
Suburban communities in the US are sooo clean and almost perfect, freshly cut grass, huge and beautiful homes, no trash anywhere.
Leaving the US is always strange like i am going back in time, everything is so old, small and not so clean.
Suburban communities in the US are sooo clean and almost perfect, freshly cut grass, huge and beautiful homes, no trash anywhere.
It's called fake, sterile and cookie cutter. Lights off and everyone locked inside by 6 PM.
Whenever I visit the USA, I am scared for my life.
Not when you forget to record you favorite tv show on the non HD channel.
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