[Culturechat] A foreigner in his own country

[Morton Mumma iii]

Re: Bakeries---there is a Swedish bakery, name forgotten nor, in Ballard,
northern suburb of Seattle, that is as good a bakery as I ever found in
Denmark or Germany, in over 13 years of living over there.




> [Original Message]
> From: Peter  Haggart <haggart@uidaho.edu>
> To: culturechat <culturechat@untours.com>; Vance Roy
<giglisaw@aiconnect.com>
 > Date: 3/10/02 8:05:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Culturechat] A foreigner in his own country
>
> Vance --------
> 
> I don't read your message as "unpatriotic" at all.
> 
> I read your message as a commentary from a person returning to his
"native"
> country - as you do now and again - and giving us a perspective that we
> would not normally have of what is happening in the USA - at least in that
> area of the country that you visit. Just as we give you a perspective of
> Switzerland - a country that you live in 95% of the time - that you would
> not get in any other way. So - I for one anyway - appreciate your
comments -
> and I always find them interesting. Maggie and I are looking forward to
> meeting you and your wife this summer.
> 
> At the end I can only say that I have never ever found a bakery in the USA
> to match any European village bakery - there is something "magic" about
the
> bread crust or the ingredients of anything sweet. Looking forward to that
> too!!
> 
> Pete
> 
> Pete and Maggie Haggart
> 1530 Borah Avenue
> Moscow, ID 83843
> Email:  haggart@moscow.com
> WebPage: http://users.moscow.com/haggart/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vance Roy" <giglisaw@aiconnect.com>
> To: "culturechat" <culturechat@untours.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 11:48 AM
> Subject: [Culturechat] A foreigner in his own country
> 
> 
> > OK, first the disclaimer. If you think me a traitor, don't bore anyone
> about
> > it but me. You can send what you like as a private message. Some of you
> know
> > how I like to wear my asbestos underwear.
> >
> > I have been in USA four days now. Am I mistaken or are people a bit
nicer
> to
> > each other since 9/11? It hit me between the eyes in Boston as I entered
> MY
> > country again after many months. You may know that in the late 60's, I
was
> a
> > prisoner of war in Boston. Almost never left.
> >
> > Our country has become a multi language country since I left in 1994.
> There
> > have been a lot of voices in the USA for a long time. I knew that
already,
> > but it is more apparent each time I return. What the Heck! I live in a
> 3/4/5
> > language country anyway.
> >
> > Folks in RI have always been a cut above the New England "brusqueness",
so
> > Newport is still Newport. Mansions, great accents, wonderful traffic
> > courtesy, lousy streets and sidewalks, beautiful trees and  beaches,
what
> I
> > call Rhode Island "lick and promise work", overpriced places to eat and
> play
> > (not so bad in the off season), and I especially like it because I don't
> > have to get my "Boston personality" on before I walk in somewhere.
> >
> > Funny though. I know folks over the whole USA that recycle. As some of
you
> > know, the Swiss are big on this. Today, we went to the grocery and asked
> for
> > paper instead of plastic bags. What did we get? We got paper bags filled
> > with groceries AND STUFFED INTO PLASTIC BAGS!! We just laughed.
> >
> > I still run around turning off lights, wonder at the amazing number of
> cars
> > with only one person on the roads, am amazed at the great variety of
goods
> > in places like Walmart (One of my favorite places to waste time), don't
> want
> > to be here if gasoline gets to be 10$ a gallon, but I cannot find a
bakery
> > in the whole town comparable to those Swiss places.
> >
> > I'll probably write more about this. I am still learning a lot about "my
> > country". If you read this as unpatriotic, so be it. I don't see it that
> > way. I just realize how different things can be. It is a "culture
thing",
> I
> > suppose. After all, we are still all together on the same ball.
> >
> > Vance Roy
> > gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
> >
> >
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