My roommate finally moved in this week, although she’s barely been around. We get along well, but we have much different ideas about sharing. For her everything in the room belongs to both of us. For me, my things belong to me, and her things belong to her. It’s just a cultural difference that I’ll have to get used to. On Wednesday night, she and I stayed up late as I answered her questions about what the States are like. In short, she thought that poor people didn’t exist in America at all and that you can only buy nice designer clothes/fragrances/etc in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. She was also bothered by the fact that we import so many things from other countries. Toward the end of the conversation, we got to
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