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Kristoff Axelsson's avatar

It sounds like London.

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A person who is wiling to emigrate to another country is a person who is wiling to sacrifice their own "comfortable assumptions" to learn new "comfortable assumptions".

So if you are a native and do not want to share some or all comfortable assumptions of your native land it's logical to seek out the company of persons who already have chosen to do likewise.

For example - I have food allergies that make more "American foods" a gastronomical and gastrointestinal horror show for me. So it is logical for me to seek the companionship of people who do not consume dairy products or wheat products. I learn about their safer foods, which are nourishing and inexpensive.

They teach me about how they look at the world. I learn new methods of framing ideas and as I explain "how to be an American" I learn to critically examine what it is to be an American. So I grow freer while helping them to adapt to America.

It's not "wierdness" as much as searching for "elusive obviousness" and being able to examine them critically.

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