What's the most specifically exotic/foreign place you've ever been? (I.e. culture shock)

[hunter]

19. Exotic? The affluent white U.S.A. hometown I fled more than forty years ago.

It's even worse now.

Holy Nightmare, Batman! if that's the American Dream I want nothing of it.

My parents are artists who were only living in the place because that's where they worked. When my dad retired they left. All my siblings left. I don't have any family there.

We also spent some time as kids in exotic places, here in the U.S.A., Europe, and Mexico on my parents very limited budget, sleeping rough at times. (My parent's called it "camping." It wasn't like the camping my schoolmates described.)

What is the "regular American/Western style of life?"

I currently live in a place where 40% of the community doesn't speak English at home. I've lived most of my life in such places.

The sooner we abandon this idea that the U.S.A. is some kind of melting pot, and begin to celebrate our diversity, the better off we will be.

From where I'm sitting now I can walk a few minutes to exotic places that would terrify the "regular" people who attend Trump rallies.