How to explain the U.S.?

[berwin]

I wrote this message on the AFS Bulletin Board, and thought that it was a good topic to put up on TravelPunk.

I know that this can sound like a very easy question to answer, but I think there is more to it. I was thinkin today on how I am goin to explain the U.S. to my host family and everyone that I meat while I am abroad.

I believe that the U.S. doesn't just have "one" culture, I mean we don't even have just one language, do you guys know what I mean by this? Anyways, I come from a very very very small town in southwest Missouri. Where you have to drive an hour and a half to get to a mall, or any form of a big city. You actually have to drive 2 and a half hours if you want to get to a "big" city. Anywhere you look all you see is farm land, cows, horses, just a very small rural town.

I mean it's kinda hard tryin to think of how to explain how the U.S. culture is, b/c it is so diverse. I mean, when I meat people from a big city, and I tell them that there are White Suprimist in my town, they are just shocked that there would still be people that think that way (and it does suck to have to live around it too, some people are just too narrow minded). It's hard tryin to put this all down on here, b/c I can't think how to say, but everyone gets what i'm tryin to say don't they? When we try and explain the U.S. to our host families it shouldn't just take us a couple of minutes, it should take us a couple of hours to get threw it all, with all the different raices, and languages, and culture, and just everything, how to explain our landscape and everything like that. I mean I know how to explain everything, it's just goin to take a lot of time to do it.

Brad-Netherlands!
05-06 YP
14 days!!