Browsing the archives for the taboo tag

Taboo – American Health System

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Health System To put it short the system is as crappy as it seems viewed from outside the US. Even crappier. Health care is a business in the US. It’s not about the patient anymore. It’s about the profits of the Health Care “Provider”. Anything and everything will be [...]

Taboo – US as the most beautiful country in the World

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: US as the most beautiful country in the World Here in the US everybody likes to think in absolute term. Something is either the BEST or the WORST thing. Same applies when we’re talking about geography. And when you apply the absolute thinking terms to the way people here think about their [...]

Taboo – Ugly Women

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: Ugly Women/People Hot topic today. We’re talking about being ugly and how you can solve this. First of all, in the US only poor people are ugly. Yeah, it’s nasty… but that’s the way it is. If you look, for example at people’s teeth you will see that almost everybody [...]

Taboo – Money Making

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: Money Making in the US The way people view and treat money is pretty much the same as back in the Romania. No matter how many money you have it’s never enough. What sets apart people with money in the US from people with money in Romania is the background. [...]

Taboo – Roads and Infrastructure

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: Roads and Infrastructure First of all, I don’t know how this made it on the taboo list. I remember, back when I was living in Romania – and I did that for most of my life, that one of the most recurrent discussion topics was infrastructure. The well known “mantra” [...]

Taboo – American Teeth

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Teeth It’s somewhat surprising that we find teeth on the list of taboos. I mean, what can be said about this subject and why would people avoid it? There are a couple of things that can go wrong when talking about this and it all fits within a greater [...]

Taboo – American Cars

Introduction here: http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/07/17/taboo/ Today’s topic: American Cars So, we all heard about American cars. What’s the deal with them, how do the Americans feel about them? Scene1: A shift is just ended at an American car factory somewhere. People are leaving home. They’ve done the job they are payed to do, the benefits are good. [...]

Taboo – American Army

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 [...]

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 [...]