i had an interesting conversation with an aquaintance.
he's on my yahoo and i rarely talk to him.
in fact so rarely that i couldn't remember who he was.
so we were doing the chit chat thing of "who are you" "how did we get to know each other"
"where are you from?" etc.
anyway....and that last question....he says "jordan"
and i say "do you like it there?" ...cause that's my typical question when someone tells me where they are from.
and i just get the feeling that he's looking oddly at his computer screen and he says. "yes. it's my country."
and i realized at that moment how different it is to be an american.
i'm not attached to this land from generations through the milleniums.
i'm fourth generation italian.
my english ancestors arrived on the mayflower.
there are so many other parts of me..... norweigian, scotch, german, french.....canadian
and who knows what else......
but it seems to me...that only an american would ask that question....or possibly a canadian.
what other countries have been so transplanted from other countries on such a massive scale?
how do australians feel about it? do they easily imagine living somewhere else?
are they always searching for "home"?
