Author: MJ (---.prtc.net)
Date: 08-10-07 06:54
Great article. While I don't think I've gone native, I have had more than a couple of close friends say they doubt seriously I'd ever be able to *make it* back in the States again (one calls it my "Oh my GOD" face when seeing how life is back in America - the stores, the cars, the sheer amount of everything, the flashing signs on bridges saying look out for suspicious people...should have said look out for suspicious bridges?)
On the other hand, I listen to visitors constantly in a state of shock here (and in the VI's where I lived before coming here)...dealing with how our time frames are quite...elastic...goods often not available...our perception of *normal*. A soothing "Welcome to Culebra" seems to help a bit...sometimes.
I think one of my own checkpoints on this is when I see a man with no shirt on, it is REALLY obvious to me as a big deal. And I grew up in Florida, where no shirt on guys was far more the norm. Now, it's almost like they are naked walking down the street...I've come to like that law a lot :)
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