Beyond Berlin: Difference in the Wet Country
For nearly a month this holiday season, I explored the social fabric
surrounding my US origins with a German national, who had never before been to the land of
plenty. Through the fresh eyes of 'the foreigner', I saw my part of America unfold under a
curious and critical lens. America is a country that defines itself by historical narratives of
migration and manifest destiny. What one encounters on the road in its northwestern corner,
however, is a bit more mundane. At closer glance, emptiness and the prosaic everyday give food
for thought, in regards to locating and valuing difference wherever it bubbles up...
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