A: It’s interesting that you would ask that, because the sense of foreignness grows until I arrive. In other words, when I’m not in America and I’m reading about it, my sense is that America’s becoming very foreign. And then I arrive, and it doesn’t seem that changed. In part, that’s because things change very slowly. And also, it’s in part, despite the changing of things, what remains the same is perhaps more. If you haven’t seen an old friend for 20 years and you get together, when you see the photograph of them the day before you meet up, you think, Oh, my goodness; they’ve gotten old. And when you walk up to them in the bar where you’re meeting and you see them the first time after that photograph, you think, Yep, it’s still them, but wow, that looks very, very different. And halfway into that first drink, you’re in the groove of your conversation, you’re like, Wow, it’s like time has passed, but they’re exactly the same. Or at least the sameness way outweighs the differences. I think that’s what it’s like going to different countries oftentimes. The underlying tapestry has not changed as much as it has stayed the same, even though, of course, it has changed and changed significantly.
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