Within our culture every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy basically.
I'm not an American but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever you have a culture 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
