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I saw a woman walking around with sunglasses exactly like:



and I thought of your profile pic.

I think I need to spend less time on the interweb.

It's different enough, even when going between to cultures that speak the same language (in my case, like America and the UK) the subtle difference can be quite maddening. It's more the way people communicate, the way they respond to problems and resolve conflicts that cause your problems. Food and drink is an easy thing to get used to, but sometimes I wish the French made proper cocktails, or that beer was less expensive, othertimes I just want pancakes or peanut butter.

The French love to talk shit about the English speaking world while fetishizing our culture. People from young countries like ours tend to envy the European sense of history, often feeling like it gives them a sense of awe and humility, and to some extent that's true. Less so in Spain and Germany, but in France they are so obsessed with their past, with what it has always meant to be french that they get left behind, importing thing innovated elsewhere 2 years late (even in fashon and food, the things that they are most known for). This is a land of play it safe revolutionaries. A friend of mine once said that revolution is about preserving the staus quoe, not changing it. When laws change here, people revolt and shut down the country until they are changed back. It may see like I'm talking shit, but not so, where I come we obliterate the past, but we do innovate. The biggest problem with world travel is that to some extent it makes the mystery and romance go away. You realize that people are pretty much the same everywhere they just speak different languages and eat different things. As far as Africa and Asia go, I've been all over southeast Asia, and to east Africa, and people are generally more decent and giving than in more devloped countries. I imagine that if you were to live in one of them, integration with the culture just would not be possible, so you could live happily among other ex-pats. In France the struggle is that you integrate, but only partially, you will always be abandoned for the French friends, they will always take a French person for a job before you, etc.

Bleh, that was a mouthful.

There are a ton of Austrailians everywhere I've ever been. My friends and I make jokes about how Austrailia must be empty because they are everywhere else telling the world how great Australia is.

I'm considering oppening a restaunt is Brisbane in a little less than a decade...