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As American as apple pie

It's pretty easy to blend in as an American in Australia. There isn't much culture shock, and it doesn't really feel like I'm half-the-world away from home. After I went on a hunt to find a pie tin to make an apple pie from scratch and got hit...
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Postcard from Santa Cruz

Whenever friends from home ask me about my life in St Kilda, I describe it as a beachy and laid-back suburb right outside of ultra-cool and urban Melbourne--like a Santa Cruz that's a 20-minute tram ride from the center of the city, to put it in...
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The cultural mixup of being American

At home, you often get asked “what” you are. For me, the answer was long but easy: one quarter German, one quarter Polish, one quarter Italian and one quarter Irish. I identify most with being German, since I studied the language (briefly), am...
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