I met a new friend recently, and have been trying to understand what it IS about him that seems strange and familiar all at the same time.
He was NOT born in this country. He's an immigrant, with a strong sense of his own culture(s) and yet aware of the ones here, as well as lots of the peripheral cultures. He is funny and quick to observe the absurdities that I blindly take for granted.
I wish I could be funny in Portuguese. That is a certain kind of fluency I still struggle for. And when i see it in another person-I think of their GENIUS. And how odd it is that Americans don't value people who have multiple fluencies; as if the whole country has an inferiority complex. (As least I know that I do and why)
He was NOT born in this country. He's an immigrant, with a strong sense of his own culture(s) and yet aware of the ones here, as well as lots of the peripheral cultures. He is funny and quick to observe the absurdities that I blindly take for granted.
I wish I could be funny in Portuguese. That is a certain kind of fluency I still struggle for. And when i see it in another person-I think of their GENIUS. And how odd it is that Americans don't value people who have multiple fluencies; as if the whole country has an inferiority complex. (As least I know that I do and why)
