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If you’re a non-American planning to visit the United States for the first time, you’re likely eyeing the big cities you’ve seen in movies or on TV. This short list would likely include New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. If you’re looking for a party, Miami or Las Vegas would probably be on your radar.
Unless you’re planning to experience the sights and sounds of Chicago, the Midwest may not be a priority for you. But as the following screenshots may show you, life down there can be quite colorful.
If you’re from the region, these posts will likely resonate with you. Scroll through and enjoy!
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Among coastal residents in the United States, the Midwest is commonly labeled as a “flyover country.” If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it simply means that this region is often passed over during flights from the East to the West coast, and vice versa.
But for someone who moved there, like author and University of Michigan lecturer Phil Christman, the Midwest has a lot more to offer than just cornfields and factories.
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UnclePanda 5 hours ago
We had no way to measure it but we could clearly see the 4-5 'touchdown prints' leading to an errant trampoline 200-300 yards from where it started.
“Especially in a period when some of the more interesting art and music consists of similar procedures repeated on a massive canvas, you’d think we could learn to truly see Midwestern flatness as something richer than mindless repetition.” Christman wrote in an essay for The Hedgehog Review.
Christman, who moved to Michigan from Texas with his wife, recognizes the Midwest’s identity, tied to labor and industry. He pointed out that outsiders may have described it as “America’s breadbasket” in the late 19th and 20th centuries and “America’s foundry” during the Second World War.
But one thing Christman also brought up is how the Midwest “suffers from a burden of normality.”
“But even used and battered landscapes have their particularity. Detroit’s blight isn’t Cleveland’s blight, any more than Manchester’s is Birmingham’s. Nor are any two cornfields truly exactly alike,” Christman wrote.
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Did I say that out loud? 5 hours ago
We're very, very lost.....or seeking refuge from Reform. Please take pity on us either way.
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Geoffrey Scott 9 hours ago (edited)
If it's pasta salad? It stays right where it is. Ain't eating no chilled rotini!
Ultimately, Christman’s essay is more about encouraging people to look past stereotypes about the Midwest. As he implies, most people simply fail to pay close attention, encouraging them to notice the subtleties in ordinary life.
“We should ask instead whether our story of the Midwest—this undifferentiated human place—contains any lovelier, more useful, or more radical possibilities. At the very least, we should try to name what there is in us for it to appeal to,” he wrote.
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Geoffrey Scott 9 hours ago
People here in Central Mich either love 'em or hate 'em. I like 'em because you don't have to sit and wait for a light. Now, diverging diamonds blow my mind(essentially changing travel side of the road and back).
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Glen Ellyn 13 hours ago
This is not only in the midwest. Ignorance is common all over the US. Too many people just don't care to learn anything. I guess they cast out their curiosity bug.
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Jonas Fisher 2 hours ago
Or how clipped the "Thank you" is when it's both routine and directed toward someone close to us. The t-h-a-n are pretty much non-existent, and we end up just saying, "Cue" with a lift at the end.
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Did I say that out loud? 5 hours ago
Or you both say "after you " then you both try and get through the door at the same time.
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Kelly Scott 1 hour ago
You know when you're out in the sticks in the Midwest when the hog and cattle prices are on the news.
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Kelly Scott 1 hour ago (edited)
That was the view that broke me back there. And I can still feel the humidity.
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