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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA

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Akima:

--- Quote from: Oilman on 28 Jan 2015, 03:11 ---I've long since come to the conclusion that the U.S. is good fun in small doses but I've never felt the urge to live there.
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I feel much the same way. I have worked in the USA for periods up to a month, and enjoyed it, but always been glad to come home to Australia. Although I know that I'm highly critical of some aspects of American government policy and society, I have generally positive feelings about America, and as an Australian, I recognise the USA as my country's most important ally. As a "convert" to liberal democracy, there is also still a part of me that thinks of America as something of a "shining city on a hill" too, laughable as that might seem to Americans.

Experiencing America is oddly strange, I find. To an Australian, many aspects of America are instantly familiar as a result of the ubiquity of its cultural products in our media*, and I work in the computer industry where a large proportion of the products and standards that shape it originated in America. I speak English fluently, so there is no language barrier, despite my different dialect and accent. I could almost imagine myself at home, but then something will come along to remind me of how intensely foreign America is, in a manner that is almost jarring in contrast.

*To some extent this is true of British cultural products too, but I have never visited the UK, so I don't know if it would strike me the same way. I googled "Roy of the Rovers", and that certainly struck me as weird and foreign! :P

Is it cold in here?:
Does QC seem like something from another planet to non-US readers, or are most of the themes universal?

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Jan 2015, 15:19 ---Does QC seem like something from another planet to non-US readers, or are most of the themes universal?
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The themes are universal, but the setting is very, very US East Coast as are a lot of the setting and characterisation assumptions.

Zebediah:
Yes - What Ben said. There are a few things that wouldn't make sense to me if I hadn't moved to Massachusetts a few months before I started reading QC.

Emperor Norton:
Honestly, I find just travelling out of my bubble of the US can make the US seem weird. And I live here. (The Atlanta Metropolitan area is a nice bubble of sanity in the Deep South. Travelling outside of it is like going to another world.)

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