Home Sickness

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And I thought we were just "big ugly Americans".

 

I did learn we have other reputations, some good or desirable and some not so good.

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A Chinese woman whom I had a couple of dates with told me the story of when she was a little girl living in a small town outside of Shanghai. She says one day a group of German men came to her town. She and the other girls hid and peered out from behind a tree to catch a look at these strange men with their blond hair and big noses. She said it was the first time she'd every seen a westerner. She really thought they were from outer space.

 

One of the English words in the ESL class I help out in was DIFFERENT. The teacher was asking each student to tell the class how they were different from another student. When it came to explain how I was different, one of the women innocently said that my nose was big.

 

 

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Hell, my nose IS big and my SO was always messing with it. I tried to mess with hers and couldn't get a hold of it.