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   From: genew@telus.net   
      
   On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 12:51:13 -0500, Doc O'Leary   
    wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >What are *you* doing that is such a brain-bending technological leap   
   >compared to the 1950s?  Standing in more lines isn't future shock.   
   >Getting groped and robbed by the TSA is something that would remind you   
   >a lot of the Nazis you recently fought to stop, so not future shock.   
   >Then you just sit in a plane for the trip, per usual.  Show me the   
   >"spades" that are so unfathomable.   
      
        It is not that there is one thing.  It is the concatenation of   
   them.  I had a bad case of culture shock several years ago.   
      
        I am a Canadian, and I lived in the U.S.A. for twenty months.  I   
   had more culture shock from that than from my ten weeks in China.  In   
   the case of China, I was expecting it to be different, weird.  When it   
   was, I was not very surprised.  I was expecting the U.S.A. to be more   
   like Canada than it was.  I got sideswiped.  I finally had to move   
   back.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)