I have been spoon-fed an image of the United States of America and the people of that country.
The movies and the media offer the image of bigger, better, bolder, more beautiful ...the best, really!
Slowly but surely, as I have befriended many Americans via Facebook, I am discovering a whole new image.
Same sex marriages will undermine the institution of marriage ...!
Delete Thomas Jefferson from history books.......!
Medical advice and treatment not exactly cutting edge.......sadly.
It is also the only country in the world that can stage a World Cup event that precludes any other country!
Now I know that there is so much brilliance about the place. Yet so often I am taken aback when a remark leads me to uncover truths that were well hidden from me before.
The land of the free and the home of the brave may just be myths that are purported to the outside world.
You can live The Dream in America ....ask Charlie Sheen - he knows how.
An English friend of mine who lives in the States has so often tried to dispel the myths I have had about it all. However, she can be a little caustic, so I was taking it with a pinch of salt, to counteract the bitterness with which she views the world.
One thing I do recall her telling me that whatever I can imagine, and whatever is beyond my imagination, is readily available. Anything that I will ever need and I will never need is for sale in the States.
I wonder what the truth of it all is.
I will see for myself soon. America ...here I come ...ready or not!
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