I absolutely love this post! Traditions are so much intertwined in our essence that we don’t really realize it how different they are “across the pond”. Whilst any European will find themselves more or less “at home” for any holiday and custom, the Americas are a whole different continent and world. And we (European lot) thought we knew …
I absolutely love this post! Traditions are so much intertwined in our essence that we don’t really realize it how different they are “across the pond”. Whilst any European will find themselves more or less “at home” for any holiday and custom, the Americas are a whole different continent and world. And we (European lot) thought we knew Americans from the movies and TV but lo and behold, we still learn! I do, with every of your posts. Please keep writing these cultural oddities. I love them so so much! It’s in these difference that we learn the patience of acceptance and we even find ourselves “at home” away from home sometimes.
As a side effect, I’m now desperate for a PBJ and that’s what I’m going to have for dinner, crust off.
I absolutely love this post! Traditions are so much intertwined in our essence that we don’t really realize it how different they are “across the pond”. Whilst any European will find themselves more or less “at home” for any holiday and custom, the Americas are a whole different continent and world. And we (European lot) thought we knew Americans from the movies and TV but lo and behold, we still learn! I do, with every of your posts. Please keep writing these cultural oddities. I love them so so much! It’s in these difference that we learn the patience of acceptance and we even find ourselves “at home” away from home sometimes.
As a side effect, I’m now desperate for a PBJ and that’s what I’m going to have for dinner, crust off.
Hope the PB&J was as good as you wanted it to be!
It was, and I even had an accompanying glass of iced rice milk because I am a cultural trope Millennial too :)
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