Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Army Scene 1: A busy airport in US (if I remember correctly Chicago). Everybody, focused on getting to the right gate, is going their way. An ant-like airport for the one that has time to contemplate. Suddenly something brakes the organized chaos. I hear a few claps of hands [...]
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Browsing the blog archives for July, 2009
23 Jul 09
Taboo – Afro-Americans
I was telling you earlier, that we’ll discuss some taboo subject that float around here in the US. As I would not like to use ‘strong’ language I think that the best way for you to get an idea is to present some situations and let your imagination do the rest. Today topic: Afro-Americans. How [...]
17 Jul 09
Taboo
Looking at blogs of other Romanians in the US, I came across this blog post: http://terbea.blogspot.com/2009/07/subiecte-tabu-sau-nu-in-america.html In this post we found a list of subject that are supposed to be taboo (or very discussed). As this blog, is in the end, a really neat experiment we’ll examine each of these subjects in detail to see [...]
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Tagged american, american dream, army, attitude, car, culture, food, history, intro, local habits, money, roads, US history, women
13 Jul 09
Ten Million Slaves
Like the banjo? If you’re like me it’s probably not your favorite instrument to listen to. Still, to every rule, there is an exception. Enjoy this exceptional sound:
12 Jul 09
Brüno or how impolitically correct people really are
So, I went to see Brüno, the new crap movie starring the one, the only Sacha Baron Cohen. You know him as the star of Borat or Ali G. Whatever. The movie is a so called comedy. Apart from effectively thrashing gays, Afro-Americans, people in fashion business, German/Austrian people and Jewish people (to name the [...]
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Tagged attitude, Borat, Brüno, irrationalities, local habits, movie, nut, politically correct, R rated
9 Jul 09
How a Romanian fought against Public Enemies
Public Enemies in this context: a term which was first widely used in the United States in the 1930s to describe individuals whose activities were seen as criminal and extremely damaging to society. However, the phrase (often spelled “publick enemy”) has been used for hundreds of years to refer to pirates, outlaws, and rebels. After [...]
5 Jul 09
Land of the Free… Free to Moon the Train that is :)
Really interesting how this thingy called the Internet is workin’ and the things you come across. In one of these Internet hyper experiences (you do go over hyperlinks so the ‘experience’ is hyper also) I’ve come accross of what may represent one of the most bafling interpretation of freedom. It’s the freedom to… hold on… [...]
1 Jul 09
The American Dream – The Road To "Riches"
Original picture from: http://www.gimmiethescoop.com/img/income-to-debt.png
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