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Ode alla calma e alle liste estive (sono felice di aver fatto quella conversazione con te 💙)

Mi hai fatto venire in mente che il saluto spagnolo "hola qué tal" viene spesso usato come "hi how are you" negli USA, uguale!

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I am curious, Enrica, have you noticed things that are particular to California? I personally, am very attached to my progressive città natale in California partly because it feels like a different country than much of the US.

Here are examples of some of the things that make me feel like I'm in a different country when I am in California versus many other states:

I did not grow up with the bicchieroni di bibite gassate, nor did anyone in my world buy them, (not when I was in a kid in the 1970s or a teenager in the 1980s, or now) but I realize that a big portion of Americans happily consume these bicchieroni of poison daily.

I was raised with an emphasis on healthy eating. My family had a large organic vegetable garden and a fruit tree orchard. We always made home-cooked meals and never ate out. In the 1990s farmers markets became popular in my town and the emphasis on organic, healthy eating grew ever stronger.

Californians pioneered curbside recycling in the 1970s and then the state told all 400+ cities and all 58 counties that they legally had to reduce the amount of trash they sent to landfills by 50%. Since Californian cities faced massive penalties if they failed, they poured resources into public school education. This resulted in a psychological shift in the minds of Californians (by the 1990s) that was rare to see in other states. Tossing a recyclable bottle into a trash felt like a shameful act of littering. We in California (of course particularly in the progressive areas) adopted a mindset about the environment that many states still have not.

And this last one is more about the difference between my world in California and my world in Italy: I never saw ANYONE smoking a cigarette when I was growing up. Literally, even in the 1970s! And still today, no one who I know in California would dream of smoking cigarettes.

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