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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday December 21, @02:49PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday December 21, @02:49PM (#1427466)

    > the act of leaving your hometown (assuming you can afford it of course) will change the way you think about "normal".

    A LOT of what is "different" about the USA is that a LOT of USAians don't leave their home town, ever. In the 1970s there was an alarming proportion of my hometown that never left the county (50km radius.) Most of this was justified to themselves because they didn't have a lot of money, but more than money it was a choice - often I think a choice based in fear, fear of people they don't understand. Not so subtle irony: they don't understand those people because they've never gotten out of their own little cocoon.

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