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It's incredible what people will assume on the basis of what you think and say and accomplish: that you're "educated" or not, rich or poor, come from x sort of family. The further you are from these ideas about you, the easier it is to see how these narratives are constructed.
First-generation immigrants confuse people insofar as they listen to them at all, in part because they're self-selected natural weirdos; most people will never leave their country of birth by choice, and the nuance of those decisions is hard or impossible to capture in aggregate
I think about this a lot. Almost the entire US are descendants of nutty people who were willing to stay in the third basement floor of shoddy ships
Btw, the ones who went all the way out west are probably even nuttier because they did that whole ride and then KEPT GOING. Granted, there was usually a generation or 2 before that happened but still. To most of the people of the world, that doesn’t make sense
1000% accurate.
I'm curious which percentage of @whatstheii this represents
Being new to a culture means you have to actively learn the narritives instead of being indoctrinated since birth. I frequently lack the context to understand if something is a joke or not and how far to generalize experiences.
Wonder what it means then, even though I live in the city I was born, I mostly make friends with expats. Am I the weirdo?
Yeah, that sort of thing is weeb-adjacent
Yeah but sometimes you don’t have a choice
Most excellent! I have just started reading a highly recommended book more deeply discussing the underlying phenomenon titled "The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous".https://smile.amazon.com/WEIRDest-People-World-Psychologically-Particularly-ebook/dp/B07RZFCPMD …
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