I saw someone comment that Wanda started out as this radicalized Eastern European teenager who despised American capitalism so it's a contradiction that she seems obsessed with US TV And I'm like You haven't met many people fitting that description have youhttps://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/1358066774609178624 …
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It's everything part of you despises about American culture while another guilty part of you longs for it You despise it *because* you long for it and you long for it because you despise it
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That's just how it feels for Americans, for foreigners plugged into this stuff it's amplified 1000%
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I had a prof in college who came from Argentina and said that as a radical leftist teen he always unconsciously believed in "the sitcom version" of America This unexamined assumption from coast to coast the US was filled with suburban households with lawns and cars and 2.5 kids
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It was very easy to resent America by thinking of America as the imaginary paradise advertised by Americans' comfort food TV And he said when he came to live here it genuinely rocked his worldview to see how huge the gap between fantasy and reality was
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