Posted by tina on July 16, 2001, at 14:44:22
In reply to Re: Not fitting in: now it's my turn, posted by Greg on July 16, 2001, at 13:26:05
"A few of my very best friends here are from Canada, England, Australia and Germany."
***Austria Greg, Laxenburg is in Austria
Had to rib ya -- just a little.
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've been thinking about being the only over-sea foreigner on this board ... and i don't like that.
> > I'm probably getting too paranoid about this, but
> > I feel like i'm not fitting in, that this is not the place for me, etc...
> > May be the hot weather is to blame, depression getting worse because of that etc...nonetheless, i feel judged somehow: i know i shouldn't feel like that: most of you folks have been kind to me, but i'm scared about the stereotype kind of thing.(Do you know what i mean?) My nation is not very well seen world wide (mafia and things like that) so i wonder how you guys are depicting me inside your heads: you know: the italian stereotype: short, fat and black haired holding a guitar in my hand singing "sole mio" and stuff like that.
> > I know, it's a mind trip (a bad one!).
poster:tina
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