2 Adults 2 Kids » small town america http://2adults2kids.com Seeing the world....on a budget. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Hollywood, Small Towns, and Me (KJ) http://2adults2kids.com/2008/06/19/hollywood-small-towns-and-me-kj/ http://2adults2kids.com/2008/06/19/hollywood-small-towns-and-me-kj/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:00:32 +0000 KJ http://2adults2kids.com/?p=79 I am just going to put this out there. I have seen so many scary movies that take place in small towns, that I’m a little scared to visit them. Maybe it’s just that positive movies about small towns just don’t become blockbusters. While films like “Jeepers Creepers”, “A Time to Kill”, “Strangers”, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and a few others were big blockbusters and have made me think of small towns as places where serial killers live and the towns are full of racists citizens and law enforcement.

Hollywood has made me afraid to visit new places. I’m tired of it and something has got to change.

Now that I think about it, it’s not just small towns, I am generally afraid of the unknown. I think I have Yahoo News and Hollywood to thank for that. And yes, I realize this is not a good quality to have if one is about to embark on a life of traveling, but how will our multicultural family be received? Am I being ridiculous?

I expect for our family to learn some hard lessons on this trip. But I thought the lessons would be about learning to tell the difference between needs and wants, how to conserve, and how to respect others’ from different cultures.

I don’t know if I’m prepared to explain racism, abuse of authority, or other topics like that.

Help me out on this, am I totally out of line here? What do you think about small town America? For our readers who consider themselves to be from small town America, what do you think about big cities? Do you think Hollywood makes you afraid of places like NYC?

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