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I have such a conflicted view of the US. Currently sat here drinking amazing beer with fantastic people, scenery and music. All the while knowing it’s literally the most racist place I’ve ever been. And I’m including South African and Belgium in that comparison
 
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I have such a conflicted view of the US. Currently sat here drinking amazing beer with fantastic people, scenery and music. All the while knowing it’s literally the most racist place I’ve ever been. And I’m including South African and Belgium in that comparison
I hope the good finds a way to supersede the bad in your experiences here. It’s… well, it’s a big place. Too big, I might argue, but such is the way of Manifest Destiny (speaking of being violently racist)… Definitely a struggle at times to know how to keep my American-ness (although I’m lately leaning into the Sharpe method; “not American, North Carolinian”) part of my identity without being, well, ‘Murikan.

Whereabouts is that? Looks absolutely lovely.
 
Individual v collective.
Get it, keep it, not give a damn about anyone else. Even in a relatively poor city like San Antonio there are hundreds (thousands?) of gated communities. Contrast with people sleeping on the sidewalk, and at least 3 illegal homeless encampments within a mile of our house.

But despite living in an inhospitable small corner of the US, I don't think I could ever move back to England, and I don't really know why.
 
We are individualism gone mad, there's no doubt.
 
I hope the good finds a way to supersede the bad in your experiences here. It’s… well, it’s a big place. Too big, I might argue, but such is the way of Manifest Destiny (speaking of being violently racist)… Definitely a struggle at times to know how to keep my American-ness (although I’m lately leaning into the Sharpe method; “not American, North Carolinian”) part of my identity without being, well, ‘Murikan.

Whereabouts is that? Looks absolutely lovely.
South Lake Tahoe. Like paradise but without the salt.

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