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I don’t know…where I was in USA it felt pretty Catholic,it seemed to be normal to be Catholic…I was like ‘wow!’ everytime we passed a prolife. billboard ,I’ve never seen one here,but that’s not to say there arnt any.
Statues of a catholic nature in the plant nurseries and on front lawns ,had me smiling and kind of amazed.

America felt dangerous to me,half from watching too many movies and then listening to the news 😱
Sometimes it was hard to ‘read’ people.I find here you pretty much know straight away if a person likes you or not.
The movie Australia, I’d have to watch again…it was just a little taste of a certain era in a certain place of a big country.

I do love all the ceremony and pomp in America,all the parades,seasonal celebrations gives it a good feel.

You have a huge boiling pot of people’s and what a lot of people in that pot !
(Ps…now you can put that in your pipe and smoke it )
 
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Remember the news is sensationalized. Has been for years. Stuff on a day to day basis is a lot more bland, until you turn on the news.

Need more coffee.
 
It’s Saturday, and you know what that means!

Time to don our fluffy white dresses, ladies, and call in some furry friends to help us CLEAN THE HOUSE!

(starting with this thread, sheesh! 😠🚬)

 
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I wasn’t particularly impressed with the movie “ Australia “ nor was my husband, and would not claim it as being a great representation.

However, our Australian perceptions of America or of Americans is not of the Wild West or of quirky stereotypes.
In general we have a broader and more inclusive understanding and are probably much more aware of life in the U.S. than Americans are of life in this southern landmass which, not including Alaska, is the same size (give or take a few square miles) as the United States

I do have personal connection though. Like Greenlands, i’ve walked on your soil and found Americans to be warm and friendly.
My son lived and worked in the U.S for a few years with his American wife now ex, but still much in contact.
And oddly enough I do have another American in my family.
Though CAF.
A dear American member was praying for another son during a horribly difficult period, and lo and behold, a second American daughter-in-law!
So of course I’ve been able to compare notes on our two cultures, and sometimes it’s been quite entertaining.
 
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America is quite Catholic in the Northeast. Not so much down South. I remember visiting Chicago once and was amazed at how many Catholic Churches there were. There was one on every block it seemed. But down here in Dixie, you are lucky to have two churches in a big town.

Not to mention the fact that you will get brochures for random Protestant church #56 and tracts. And weird looks if you cross yourself say during grace.
 
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has 287 Catholic parishes! I’ve been to about 45 of those churches.
 
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America is quite Catholic in the Northeast. Not so much down South. I remember visiting Chicago once and was amazed at how many Catholic Churches there were. There was one on every block it seemed. But down here in Dixie, you are lucky to have two churches in a big town.

Not to mention the fact that you will get brochures for random Protestant church #56 and tracts. And weird looks if you cross yourself say during grace.
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They’re probably just envious that you can say grace in under 10 minutes and eat your food while it’s still hot. 😄
 
Wow, I wake up…use 3 likes and have no more…😡
Good thing I wasn’t born that way,unable to like.

How’s that young man of yours Gertie?Did his spirits return?
 
Oh heck yes.

Loved it.

But it needed more Gene Kelly. 😠.angry:😠 Everything needs more Gene Kelly. 😠


Oh and then there’s this:

 
In order to enter the Trump Dimension, you must first scale the WALL…
 
Well, I just got done with putting up a zip-line that my sister got for her birthday. Okay, my Dad did most of the work. I supervised. And held up the flashlight. Because, yes, we put it up in the dark. And we played on it in the dark. I don’t know why my Dad had to insist on going first. :roll_eyes:
 
I’m making butternut squash soup tonight. I think I messed up the recipe though.

We’re supposed to get actual snow tonight and tomorrow.

The weather forecaster told us all to make sure we went out and bought bread and milk before the storm hits.

🤣 😂 🤣
 
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America felt dangerous to me,half from watching too many movies and then listening to the news 😱
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FWIW, when I worked at the State Library of Kansas, I heard about how in the late 60’s the American Library Association’s national convention was going to be in Topeka. The organizing committee got a request from some librarians from New York who wanted to make sure they got rooms on the 3rd floor so they wouldn’t be kept awake by the gunfights in the street. Apparently they had no idea that the hotels around there ever got above 3 stories, else they would have asked for floors on the 4th or even 5th floors. They were also surprised/disappointed to find there were no cowboys wandering around the streets of Topeka.

On the other hand, about 30 years ago, when I worked at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, there was a woman who came from New York City as a grad student. She got a mobile home and kept telling her friends back home how a) everything, especially housing, was so inexpensive there, and b) how safe she felt there. After about two weeks, she was found murdered in her mobile home. Apparently she felt so safe that she never bothered to lock her doors.

The lesson I took from that is that EVERYPLACE is dangerous until you learn the rules there.
 
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