How were you first exposed to “mainstream” American culture? What were your first impressions? Joe: I was public schooled all my life and so lived in this "mainstream" culture first hand.  I say "lived in" because it was beaten into us that my siblings and I were sojourners in a foreign country.  Martyrs for the cause of patriarchal Christianity.  The only reason we had to be in this culture was because our evil father had forced it upon us. But I wanted it.  I wanted a girlfriend.  I wanted t … [Read more...]