In my country, it’s different

Alex Polise
3 min readJan 16, 2021
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave?

Living in a different country can feel really soothing. In a different country, you have a lot more patience and understanding for the people around you. After all, whatever they are doing is probably a cultural thing if it feels unfamiliar and foreign. And on top of that, they aren’t your people. They’re foreign. So, you glide through life, complacent about the bad things that are happening around you and intrigued by everything else.

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Alex Polise

Writer, t-shirt designer, software engineer. Child. Canoe.