When we were sent away by our parents,

you're going to go to college, and we're going, why?

And then my first year there was like, I was in culture shock

because I didn't know anybody from LA ever, or San Francisco or Portland or wherever,

and they had a different vocabulary,

and they definitely had different social customs

than I was aware of.

But what happened to our generation is that we were kind of,

pulling along this other epic time of history

and process and experience,

and we were going across the cultural divide

in the chasm of becoming know, of becoming an American,

more of an intellectual level, and grabbing onto that shore of two continents, basically,

and then trying to pull them together, or trying to even build a bridge across it.

You know, because you're trying to make these two non-worlds of each other come together

for you.

And that's difficult in academia.

Because academia doesn't realize how it's inculcated within its own cosmos.

And it belongs to a different continent.

It belongs to a different history, a different litany.

And it's certainly not this cosmos and this litany at all.

One of my professors, she says,

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