I am an American, but I’ll speak as a human being who happens to have first hand perspective. As a human I posses higher brain functions than a baboon. So when I “see America” I see both these images at once, as well as many others. I’m aware that a country- especially a large or well populated country- is made of many kinds of people. That not all Brits are lords and ladies with monocles or plucky cockney chimney sweeps. Not all Australians are shirtless holding a beer and bbq’ing over a tire fire nor are they super model surfers. Not all Japanese are ultra shy and polite introverts nor are they all up tight business men. Me, a humble American whonisnthe product of an educational system much of the world seems to think little of, is able to see this fact- that the guy in the bottom picture could just be the guy in the top picture on a weekend pass- that a single person and especially a country is a complex thing and if we try to lock it into a single moment in time we see what we want
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