The American Shock: From Atrocity to Beauty and Back Again
<p>I am hardly even European. My country is one of those poor Eastern European ones, trapped between the old continent and big monstrous Russia, hardly part of Europe’s culture. A gate between heaven and hell.</p>
<p>But far-far away, across a continent and an ocean, America is the land of my soul.</p>
<p>The first country where I ever felt at home. Where I felt like I belonged. And the most shocking place on earth.</p>
<p>The shock is a mélange of the massive diversity, the sheer atrocities that the American people are desensitized to, the helicopters, the kindness, the hardcore police, the smiles, the guns, the spectacular nature, the drugs, the Wild Wild West as part of day to day existence. No specific culture, but all cultures mixed into one.</p>
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