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Much as I frequent them despite myself
Much as I frequent them despite myself, I can't say that I entirely approve of chain restaurants. It's nice to know, even in another town, what you're going to order before you even get there. But that's just another example of the comfortable laziness I find myself falling into in the United States.
As Jillian, Alex and I were discussing in the Impromptu Study-Abroad Discussion at Hungry Howie's on Saturday (in the middle of our quasi-conversation with Mr Scary Townie), it's easy to live in your native country, but it's that challenge that makes it fun to live in another culture. You can't take things for granted - you have to take an active role in your life and discover things. Every day is full of discovery when you're participating in an unfamiliar culture - either discovery about the exterior world and your adopted culture or an interior self-discovery or discovery about your home culture.
srah - Monday, 19 November 2001 - 4:21 PM
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