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GETTING TO KNOW AMERICAN CULTURE
WAIT, NO, THAT’S NOT WHAT
I MEANT…
I cannot tell you the number of times I wish I had known
more about mainstream culture here. I mean, I thought I was
pretty updated but then I come here and there are so many
references that I just did not get. So, did I awkwardly laugh along
and pretend I knew what they were talking about? Absolutely.
Eventually, I gave up though – I told them that I had no clue
what they were talking about, blamed it on culture differences,
and they very excitedly explained it to me. And so, try to keep
yourself as updated with what goes on here – watch a few
popular TV shows (it’s for homework), read blogs and check out
what’s trending. You don’t want to be told that you “live under
a rock”. And now since I mentioned that, let me go over a few
phrases that are used here, and some phrases that don’t always
mean what we think they mean.