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April 13, 2011 9 Comments

Crossing Cultures

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article at TheHighCalling.org about discovering I was a foreigner.This week, we decided to launch a community writing project inviting others to tell their own stories of crossing cultures.  I wrote the introductory post, which begins:

My parents tell me I was about four years old, dancing down the sidewalk, on the lookout for a hippie.Apparently my older brother announced that he had seen a hippie, so I raised a fuss about wanting to see one, as well. It was the early 1970s, so you’d think hippies would be commonplace, but we lived in a conservative Midwestern town where cultural trends developed slowly.Fortunately, we were visiting the college campus where my parents met—a location that held much more hippie-spotting potential than our hometown—and they told me what a male hippie might look like: long hair, a beard, maybe sandals or bare feet…….continued at TheHighCalling.org.

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  1. David Rupert says

    April 13, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I remember the first time I saw two men holding hands. And they were hippies.

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    • annkroeker says

      April 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm

      Well, now, that definitely counts as crossing cultures. Did you point at them and shout? That’s what I did to the guy with long hair that I spotted near the pizzeria.

      Of course, I was only four years old.

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  2. Charity Singleton says

    April 13, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Well, I was just about to ask if I could link up my story that I wrote to correspond with your post, and then David just reminded me of another story from the first summer I lived in Maine and ate “kahn” (corn) and “chawda” (chowder). I also saw two men holding hands, actually LOTS of men holding hands. And they weren’t hippies. Plus, I met my first alcoholic. Well, the first alcoholic that wasn’t related to me and was in AA, that is. Maybe I should write about that summer!

    Love this idea.

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    • annkroeker says

      April 13, 2011 at 9:30 pm

      Oh, Charity, absolutely head over to Dena’s to link up your Portugal post, and if you have time and inspiration, I would LOVE to hear about your time in Maine! I’ve never been there, but I do love “kahn chawda.”

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  3. Susan DiMickele says

    April 13, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    Too funny. My parents were also very conservative in the 70’s — I can totally relate to the “hippy watch” — headed over to THC to read the rest.

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    • Susan DiMickele says

      April 13, 2011 at 10:56 pm

      woops! Hippie or Hippy? Time to go to bed.

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      • annkroeker says

        April 14, 2011 at 4:04 pm

        These days, as a 40+ year old woman, I’m still on a “hippy watch.” Time to exercise!

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  4. Megan Willome says

    April 14, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    Obviously none of you people are from Austin, Texas. I grew up with hippies everywhere. I thought tatts and piercings and organic food were normal–30 years ago. All lifestyles were on display at Zilker Park or along the Hike & Bike Trail. When I grew up and went to college and found out that some cities were actually conservative, I was shocked.
    Keep Austin Weird.

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    • annkroeker says

      April 14, 2011 at 4:03 pm

      So…those of us from the conservative towns were to you the “foreigners,” right? 😉

      Reply

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