"I don't know why they acted like that," she frowned. "There's nothing wrong with the food."
At a pool table, two well-inked guys cued up in a haze of cigarette smoke.
New Holland's Main Street was dominated by antique stores. "A lot of these towns are like this," Hai-Dang commented. "Everyone is selling junk as antiques! Growing up, it was garage or lawn sales every weekend with my mom. Driving through even smaller towns, you'd see all these lawn signs for yard sales, in places with hardly any people. I picture all these people in small towns wearing each other's second hand clothes!"
There was a restaurant, La Casita, that flew a Puerto Rican flag. Fleeing exorbitant New York, thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have moved into rural Pennsylvania.
Hai-Dang grew up in small town Wisconsin, then went to college in Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,200, where he's now a professor. Hai-Dang also studied in Madison and Gainesville, and has traveled all over. Although rooted enough to the Midwest, he is also a cosmopolitan. His part Iranian, part English girlfriend lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, so Hai-Dang spends months there at a time. Last Thanksgiving, they vacationed in Miami. Still escaping the snow, they showed up in Santa Monica in March, then whooped it up in New Orleans in the Spring.
The term "rootless cosmopolitan" was coined by a 19th century Russian literary critic, Vissarion Belinsky, then popularized by Joseph Stalin in the 1940's, to describe Soviet Jewish intellectuals who were, in his mind, traitors to Russia. Instead of extolling Russian/Soviet culture, they were open to the West, and they sided with Israel, naturally, whereas Soviet Russia backed the Arabs.
With his blue passport, English and a bit of cash, Americans can explore the world more easily than ever, with many spending extended time overseas. Even if he goes nowhere, however, the world will come to him, for the USA is a come-on and magnet for all nationalities. This country's reigning ideology is also globalist and progressive, which means a serial rejection of the past, so we are already, in many ways, a country of rootless cosmopolitans.
Waging war against the world, we preach world peace constantly, and wail, "We are the world, we are the children," as we chronically bomb helpless men, women and children, for the American/Israeli worldview must be propped up at all costs.
Here today, gone tomorrow. Maybe I'll move to Costa Rica or Thailand? The Jersey City or San Jose I grew up in has permanently changed anyway, so there's no home to go back to.
In Lancaster County, the Amish stubbornly maintain their age-old ways, and though they have shrewdly adapted, as in hiring Hmong seamstresses, they still refuse to pick up arms, no matter the cause, and they don't fly. As with all traditional societies, they respect hierarchies and observe clear division between the sexes, which they still, somehow, only count as two, and not 63.
Although almost everything they do is a rejection of America, they cause little resentment, because they don't tirelessly deform, manipulate or kill anyone. In fact, as our collapse becomes more undeniable, more Americans will turn to them for examples, but being defenseless, they might not survive this nation's next chapter.
Like the Hmongs, maybe they'll fly, at last, to some baffling, faraway land, where they can perform their marvelous handiwork each long day, for next to nothing.
At a pool table, two well-inked guys cued up in a haze of cigarette smoke.
New Holland's Main Street was dominated by antique stores. "A lot of these towns are like this," Hai-Dang commented. "Everyone is selling junk as antiques! Growing up, it was garage or lawn sales every weekend with my mom. Driving through even smaller towns, you'd see all these lawn signs for yard sales, in places with hardly any people. I picture all these people in small towns wearing each other's second hand clothes!"
There was a restaurant, La Casita, that flew a Puerto Rican flag. Fleeing exorbitant New York, thousands of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have moved into rural Pennsylvania.
The term "rootless cosmopolitan" was coined by a 19th century Russian literary critic, Vissarion Belinsky, then popularized by Joseph Stalin in the 1940's, to describe Soviet Jewish intellectuals who were, in his mind, traitors to Russia. Instead of extolling Russian/Soviet culture, they were open to the West, and they sided with Israel, naturally, whereas Soviet Russia backed the Arabs.
With his blue passport, English and a bit of cash, Americans can explore the world more easily than ever, with many spending extended time overseas. Even if he goes nowhere, however, the world will come to him, for the USA is a come-on and magnet for all nationalities. This country's reigning ideology is also globalist and progressive, which means a serial rejection of the past, so we are already, in many ways, a country of rootless cosmopolitans.
Waging war against the world, we preach world peace constantly, and wail, "We are the world, we are the children," as we chronically bomb helpless men, women and children, for the American/Israeli worldview must be propped up at all costs.
Here today, gone tomorrow. Maybe I'll move to Costa Rica or Thailand? The Jersey City or San Jose I grew up in has permanently changed anyway, so there's no home to go back to.
In Lancaster County, the Amish stubbornly maintain their age-old ways, and though they have shrewdly adapted, as in hiring Hmong seamstresses, they still refuse to pick up arms, no matter the cause, and they don't fly. As with all traditional societies, they respect hierarchies and observe clear division between the sexes, which they still, somehow, only count as two, and not 63.
Although almost everything they do is a rejection of America, they cause little resentment, because they don't tirelessly deform, manipulate or kill anyone. In fact, as our collapse becomes more undeniable, more Americans will turn to them for examples, but being defenseless, they might not survive this nation's next chapter.
Like the Hmongs, maybe they'll fly, at last, to some baffling, faraway land, where they can perform their marvelous handiwork each long day, for next to nothing.
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