Ok so I've ranted about how irritating it is to me how there seems to be a lack of concern for anything except what is immediate around here. A good example of this is this:
Many of the cars around here have these little protectors on the doors so that they don't scratch up THE EDGE OF THE DOOR on things. Maybe if I had a new car I would understand, or maybe if I had a really expensive new car I would understand, but not a 2009 Hyundai Avante.
So obviously there's a sort of vanity about automobiles around here. I'm not sure if it is this vanity that dictates the lack of stickers on the cars... But there are very few stickers. A bumper sticker is kind of a form of individuality, of personal expression, values that are not prevalent in this culture. This fact hurts me very deeply, but at the same time, it helps me understand why people don't understand why I choose not to eat meat because I care about the future of the planet.
I LOVE reading other people's bumper stickers. You can tell so much about a person by their bumper stickers. And if the person has a whole mess of them? Phew! You know that that person sure has a lot to say about something. I met this one guy once in Yellowstone who had all of these custom made stickers all over the back of his car. The stickers were all different expressions with the words "super sweet" inserted into them. He really liked that phrase, "super sweet". He was from South Carolina, but he was just driving around in his super sweet green Ford Taurus, sleeping in the back, working at Applebee's here and there...
It is funny and interesting to me how the media in the USA is blanketed with news about what is happening in the middle east right now, and here, I mentioned it to one of my students just now (he speaks English pretty well), and he told me that he only knows "what we talked about yesterday".
Many of the cars around here have these little protectors on the doors so that they don't scratch up THE EDGE OF THE DOOR on things. Maybe if I had a new car I would understand, or maybe if I had a really expensive new car I would understand, but not a 2009 Hyundai Avante.
So obviously there's a sort of vanity about automobiles around here. I'm not sure if it is this vanity that dictates the lack of stickers on the cars... But there are very few stickers. A bumper sticker is kind of a form of individuality, of personal expression, values that are not prevalent in this culture. This fact hurts me very deeply, but at the same time, it helps me understand why people don't understand why I choose not to eat meat because I care about the future of the planet.
I LOVE reading other people's bumper stickers. You can tell so much about a person by their bumper stickers. And if the person has a whole mess of them? Phew! You know that that person sure has a lot to say about something. I met this one guy once in Yellowstone who had all of these custom made stickers all over the back of his car. The stickers were all different expressions with the words "super sweet" inserted into them. He really liked that phrase, "super sweet". He was from South Carolina, but he was just driving around in his super sweet green Ford Taurus, sleeping in the back, working at Applebee's here and there...
It is funny and interesting to me how the media in the USA is blanketed with news about what is happening in the middle east right now, and here, I mentioned it to one of my students just now (he speaks English pretty well), and he told me that he only knows "what we talked about yesterday".
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