Tuesday, May 16, 2006

REVERSE CULTURE SHOCK

After living in Vienna some friends said I would suffer culture shock on returning to Texas. Here are a number of adjustments I am making (in no particular order):

Eating appalling American bread (a rather flavorless glue-like substance).
TV automobile dealership commercials aimed at a customer with an IQ of 80.
The demise of KTPB – why can’t NPR support stations in small markets better?
Tasteless yoghurt.
Telephone charity solicitors.
Inadequate public transportation.
Can’t find a lamb kebap stand anywhere.
Eurosport is so much better than ESPN.
Bill O’Reilly.
Television stations that stress news, but leave me with no idea of what is really happening in the rest of the world.
No television commercials telling me how delightful it is to vacation in “beautiful” Uganda.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Picturesquely, persuasively, and appealingly put, professor.

AG said...

Welcome back! We'll have to find a place that makes kebabs here for you.