People out of place, people out of time . . . behaving badly or well, engaging the locals, learning stuff or not, coping, getting lost, forgetting . . .
“People are strange when you’re a stranger,
Faces are ugly when you’re alone.”
—“People are Strange,” The Doors
This is a site about homes and destinations and movement—intellectual as well as physical—across boundaries: specifically, the boundaries of geography, culture, nationality, language, tolerance and time. It’s about the activity itself and the dynamics at work in the one who ventures and the other who receives. It’s also about the real experiences of both: the visions, nightmares or habits that draw us out the door, what we find and later report and what we don’t. And what becomes of the guy on the other side, waiting on the sand or peeking from behind a tree. Here, owing to personal and general history, Pilgrim will often be European or Euro-American, the face looking back indigenous American or African. Welcome to Customs: Anything to declare?
Read / discuss here (through The wicket gate):
~Ugly Americans: Americans abroad
~U.S. stereotypes & attitudes toward foreigners & non-U.S. institutions
~Foreign stereotypes about U.S.; the U.S. reputation abroad
~Foreign travel, anywhere to anywhere
Read / discuss at Pilgrims & trekkers:
~History is the product of peoples as well as of individuals
~The place of indigenous peoples in New World history
~The U.S.' real place in New World history
~Parallels between the U.S.' & Southern Africa's histories
~Whether any nation has a cosmic purpose and, if so, what it may be
Coming: Looking for the Bahana: Native America's Long Wait for Recognition : The continuing American encounter, from all sides
“Up, up and away!”
—Action Comics, New York City, 20th Century
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