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I lived in Korea for 5 years. Here's what happened when I came home to Nebraska.
I spent five years living in the clamor of Seoul, South Korea, and the smaller provincial capital of Jeonju. When I finally returned home to rural Nebraska, the silence was palpable. The negative space had an almost oppressive quality. I would look out on so much land and see nothing and be reminded that this was the same landscape that once caused homesteaders to lose their minds. I had come home — literally, this was the Nebraska town I grew up in — to take a job at a small newspaper in Scottsbluff.
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"After living abroad, it's hard not to be baffled how a nation as wealthy as ours doesn't seem to mind if a serious health condition can bankrupt almost anyone, or how our prison industrial complex is a perpetual motion machine gobbling up poor people and people of color just to keep itself running."
It's really strange how obvious this is to people outside the US, yet many people in the US can't see it.
Some of us see it.