09-07-2017, 11:00 AM
Thank you all for replying!
Lol yes YinYang that is exactly why I was hesitant to post it at first... I carried it around for a week or so before mustering up the courage. And I like Alan Watts! Can't say I get what he is saying though. I only understand it intellectually
Yes Jeremy – but there are other foreigners on that train and usually it is the americans who stand out re noise.
It is the train to Salzburg and it is always full of japanese, italians, americans.. well italians can be loud too but at least their language sounds more lovely to me (sorry, haha, please don't hate me now).
My favorites are always the asians, I had an asian neighbor once, the quietest most polite dude you could imagine, plus the bowing...
I think our western societies could only profit if we introduced bowing as a form of greeting.
I must mention this one exchange I witnessed, it is funny but also kind of sad. No, it is sad, actually, really sad...
there was a group of american girls, I took them to be students. Wore some kind of college sweater.
One of them talked about an exchange she had with one of the mobile vendors on a train.
They were chatting and he asked her where she was from and she said „New York“. Then she asked where he was from and he said „Iraq“.
And then this female actually asked him why he had left Iraq and gone to live in Europe!
Uhhhh I thought to myself, I cannot really believe she asked !
But the vendor had diplomatic skills and replied that there was a lot of terrorism and bombs going off in Iraq and it was not safe therefore he left.
And she replied „oohhhh I see“.
Judging from her reaction I gather that she had no clue that the US under orders of GWB had invaded Iraq and started the war there, plus she probably couldn't place it on a world map either.
It is actually scary because I guess most americans will never hold their politicians accountable for what is being done in their name because they simply lack the knowledge.
Lol yes YinYang that is exactly why I was hesitant to post it at first... I carried it around for a week or so before mustering up the courage. And I like Alan Watts! Can't say I get what he is saying though. I only understand it intellectually
Yes Jeremy – but there are other foreigners on that train and usually it is the americans who stand out re noise.
It is the train to Salzburg and it is always full of japanese, italians, americans.. well italians can be loud too but at least their language sounds more lovely to me (sorry, haha, please don't hate me now).
My favorites are always the asians, I had an asian neighbor once, the quietest most polite dude you could imagine, plus the bowing...
I think our western societies could only profit if we introduced bowing as a form of greeting.
I must mention this one exchange I witnessed, it is funny but also kind of sad. No, it is sad, actually, really sad...
there was a group of american girls, I took them to be students. Wore some kind of college sweater.
One of them talked about an exchange she had with one of the mobile vendors on a train.
They were chatting and he asked her where she was from and she said „New York“. Then she asked where he was from and he said „Iraq“.
And then this female actually asked him why he had left Iraq and gone to live in Europe!
Uhhhh I thought to myself, I cannot really believe she asked !
But the vendor had diplomatic skills and replied that there was a lot of terrorism and bombs going off in Iraq and it was not safe therefore he left.
And she replied „oohhhh I see“.
Judging from her reaction I gather that she had no clue that the US under orders of GWB had invaded Iraq and started the war there, plus she probably couldn't place it on a world map either.
It is actually scary because I guess most americans will never hold their politicians accountable for what is being done in their name because they simply lack the knowledge.
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