Culturally divided nation ?…..
Sure it is … in fact my own home is culturally divided .
I’m reminded of that fact every time I wear my expensive pale yellow cotten shirt . That shirt you see, sports an oily half moon stain that just won’t come out and the shirt is still just too expensive to turn into a “work shirt” .
Along those cultural divides Americans like chunky salads. I mean salads the likes of stabbing a fork into a Ranch Dressing infused hunk of iceberg lettuce the size of a golf ball. Maybe even plunging that fork into a complete half of a tomato with large rings of onion hanging from the left tine . That’s a salad .
Latinos however make salads with the same ingredients as Americans except that it is diced up finer than cole slaw….” Ensalada” they call it . This means they’ve never had to learn how to properly slice an onion or tomato .
Americans, with full understanding of the beauty of a chunky salad, will always slice an onion crosswise so that we end up with “rings” of onions, and likewise tomatos.
Latins, such as my wife, will slice them in true “Ensalada” form …. lengthways. Thats why my first bite into a wonderfull freshly grilled hamburger caused a half moon shaped olive oil mayonaise saturated piece of onion to easily escape the bun to land above my left breast.
I wear that shirt often with the stain over my left tit as proof of my acceptance ….
….. of cultural division
