How to Live in American Culture
Well, that’s the thing though. We’re not REALLY “living” in American culture these days, but rather, trying to just SURVIVE American culture.
There’s a difference.
Huge. “Bigly”, even.
Living in the US is absolutely exhausting mentally, emotionally and physically. Being in the US is akin to often feeling as if one is waiting for the other shoe to drop. “Hmm, let’s see. What will happen today? Another mass shooting? More legislation passed that rips aways the rights of others? News of political corruption with absolutely no accountability in sight?”
Let me count the ways…
It should go without saying that not all countries/cultures are like this.
But, for some inexplicable reason, American culture IS like this.
Was it always this way and we just didn’t realize it? Maybe, maybe not.
Has it become exponentially worse since 2016? It definitely feels that way.
There’s really nothing “relaxing” about living in the US. Or, even if one is able to manage a modicum of this, it disappears almost as quickly as it appeared since, that seems to be “The American Way” — I don’t think I’m the only one that wonders, in the back of my mind, when out and about:
