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DAY 109 - Culture
Welcome my wonderful readers!
As many of you know by now, I am an American living with my Filipina wife in her native country until I can meet the income requirements to acquire a visa for her.
With the exception of a terrorist attack, nothing will make you more patriotic than being away from home, for it is through this experience that you will learn just how precious 'home' really is!
I could never have imagined I'd be away for so long. But I guess it was my destiny to sacrifice comfort, health, potential for prosperity, and all the other treasures for the love of my wife. And so I remain in an environment that robbed me of my youth some twelve years ago. A discriminate society that never passes up an opportunity to remind me of how fortunate I was to have been born and raised in a culture of common sense, open-mindedness, ambition, and REAL chances to make ambitions reality!
When it comes to drive and striving for excellence, no other culture in the world compares to that of Americans. Not a boasted opinion, but just a true undisputed fact. Which is why I couldn't help but take offense when an ignorant comment was made by a German guy my wife met at the park here in Baguio City.
(Don't worry, she wasn't going behind my back cheating or anything-LOL!)
Walking in the park enjoying a snack(while I was home writing) my wife passed this German and his crying baby while they waited for the child's mother to return. Clearly, the father didn't have much experience in pacifying the little guy, and being the lover of kids she is, my wife stopped and admired the foreign infant.
Soon she had asked to hold little Timmy, and almost right away the baby stopped crying and was on his way to falling asleep.
While his child doze in this stranger's arms, the German told my wife how he, his significant other, and Timmy were visiting Baguio City as part of their vacation to the Philippines. He was quite the traveler, and mentioned how he enjoyed experiencing different cultures. The fact had been raised that my wife was married to an American, and before long Mr. German made an ignorant statement that I would have taken offense to if I were there.
"Americans have no culture."
Sure, I'm patriotic and all, but that doesn't mean I'm bias. I live my life in alignment with truth. If he would have said something like, "Americans, in general, are poor linguists," I couldn't really argue against such a point, because in reality, in general, we are. But to say something as utterly stupid as "Americans have no culture"?! Just because we're not running around in loincloths dancing to drums doesn't mean we don't have culture! (Some might bring up Native Americans, and say we imprisoned our culture on reservations, but that was actually sins of those who came before us, just as slavery was.)
The fact of the matter is, the whole world adopted our culture of prosperity! Of equality and opportunity! Including Germany!
Man, this guy was lucky he didn't receive the ranting and raving my wife endured once she returned home and told me of her afternoon! I mean, by no means are we a perfect culture, but to have changed the world with a culture all other countries aspire to emulate...?
Now that's a pretty amazing damn culture if you ask me!
See you tomorrow:)
The story of my diverse life thus far...
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As many of you know by now, I am an American living with my Filipina wife in her native country until I can meet the income requirements to acquire a visa for her.
With the exception of a terrorist attack, nothing will make you more patriotic than being away from home, for it is through this experience that you will learn just how precious 'home' really is!
I could never have imagined I'd be away for so long. But I guess it was my destiny to sacrifice comfort, health, potential for prosperity, and all the other treasures for the love of my wife. And so I remain in an environment that robbed me of my youth some twelve years ago. A discriminate society that never passes up an opportunity to remind me of how fortunate I was to have been born and raised in a culture of common sense, open-mindedness, ambition, and REAL chances to make ambitions reality!
When it comes to drive and striving for excellence, no other culture in the world compares to that of Americans. Not a boasted opinion, but just a true undisputed fact. Which is why I couldn't help but take offense when an ignorant comment was made by a German guy my wife met at the park here in Baguio City.
(Don't worry, she wasn't going behind my back cheating or anything-LOL!)
Walking in the park enjoying a snack(while I was home writing) my wife passed this German and his crying baby while they waited for the child's mother to return. Clearly, the father didn't have much experience in pacifying the little guy, and being the lover of kids she is, my wife stopped and admired the foreign infant.
Soon she had asked to hold little Timmy, and almost right away the baby stopped crying and was on his way to falling asleep.
While his child doze in this stranger's arms, the German told my wife how he, his significant other, and Timmy were visiting Baguio City as part of their vacation to the Philippines. He was quite the traveler, and mentioned how he enjoyed experiencing different cultures. The fact had been raised that my wife was married to an American, and before long Mr. German made an ignorant statement that I would have taken offense to if I were there.
"Americans have no culture."
Sure, I'm patriotic and all, but that doesn't mean I'm bias. I live my life in alignment with truth. If he would have said something like, "Americans, in general, are poor linguists," I couldn't really argue against such a point, because in reality, in general, we are. But to say something as utterly stupid as "Americans have no culture"?! Just because we're not running around in loincloths dancing to drums doesn't mean we don't have culture! (Some might bring up Native Americans, and say we imprisoned our culture on reservations, but that was actually sins of those who came before us, just as slavery was.)
The fact of the matter is, the whole world adopted our culture of prosperity! Of equality and opportunity! Including Germany!
Man, this guy was lucky he didn't receive the ranting and raving my wife endured once she returned home and told me of her afternoon! I mean, by no means are we a perfect culture, but to have changed the world with a culture all other countries aspire to emulate...?
Now that's a pretty amazing damn culture if you ask me!
See you tomorrow:)
The story of my diverse life thus far...
http://www.lulu.com/shop/rico-lamoure...
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