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...sharp cultural differences between America and Japan are hardly new concepts, as anyone who has ever been to Tokyo is well aware. In fact, many of the recent "More Like Japan" books have noted that there are many Japanese attitudes--including intense racism and sexism--that the United States would be well advised not to adopt. The distinction between More Like Us and the others is the emphasis; Fallows insists that the only true cure for America's malaise can come from the attributes that initially made the U.S. a great nation...
...Northeast, but what I didn't anticipate was pressure from friends and other first-year students to conform to the Eastern way of life. My grandmother, you see, still wages the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, if you weren't sure), and she couldn't stand the fact that I might go to the H-school and become or worse yet, date, a "blue-bellied Yankee." (Heaven forbid.) No one was really standing around giving me lessons in how to become an "effite Easterner," but there were still those who thought the concept of Texas was something suitable only...
Such situations were usually just hilarious, and I enjoyed the chance to enlighten friends about the fact that Texas joined the Union back in the 19th century and that, yes, indeed, most people have indoor plumbing. What was trying was when people would give me grief about dressing "Southern" or about eating picante sauce with just about every kind of food...
Ironically enough, Matt's biggest impact on mylife was not teaching me about life an anupperclass student, but in helping me toappreciate being a first-year student. He hadtransferred to Harvard after one year at Columbia,and he always resented the fact that he could notshare in his classmates' reminiscences about theirfirst year--that he never lived in the Yard or atehis meals in the Union...
...encouraged me to work hard on TheCrimson, in part to make up for the fact that hehadn't been able to compete against those who hadalways been there. It was he who spent hoursdiscussing with me which house I should live inand which major I should choose. It was he whoread publications for first-year students and toldme about all the opportunities that I shouldn'tpass up, in part because he had been forced...