Re: [Talk] alienation

看板EngTalk (全英文聊天)作者Tabrith (血糖瑪琪朵)時間15年前 (2010/11/22 02:08)推噓1(1推 0噓 1→)

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※ 引述《areleemama (AL)》之銘言： : Are most of the people in this board feel the same thing as I do? : Do you ever feel being alienated to the surrounding of your environment to a : point which you don't really know where you belong to? : I was born in Taiwan and grew up in a foreign land called North America. : Even though I speak Caucasions' language but I don't feel NA is my home, : and neither is Taiwan. : Asia is much more interesting and more convenient than NA, : but I have no friends here, : I feel completely being alienated :( : not because Taiwanese people descrimated against me, but I never attend schools : in Taiwan....therefore it's hard for me to make friends.. : In fact, I think Taiwanese people are tend to be more enthusisatic than NA... : Well, just curious, how do you guys who have the same background as me : deal with this kind of problem? i have similar background as you, but i attended elementary school in taiwan before coming to the states. at that time email and IM weren't very popular, so i lost contact with my friends. but thanks to everyone's favorite - facebook - i finally reunited with them, sort of, haha XD i never think of this country as my home either, but after being away from taiwan for so long, and under influence of mixed culture here, it just... doesn't seem so important anymore. everyone here has their own story, some are illegal immigrants getting paid below minimum wage; some came from wealthy family who thinks wall-mart sells walls; some are here to persuit higher education... i don't think i feel like alienated here tho, maybe it's because new yorkers are used of seeing asians on the street. but when i visited taiwan last year i felt like a complete foreigner, i tried to order coffer and couldn't even pronounce the name of the drink on the menu XD i think my true home is the internet... haha~ -- People are capable of kindness beyond angels, yet we also commit sins that would put a demon to shame... -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 68.237.192.230 ※ 編輯: Tabrith 來自: 68.237.192.230 (11/22 04:30)