“How does someone from Nebraska end up living in Lisbon?” I am asked this question every week by American and British visitors to the Portuguese capital, and I am always simultaneously baffled and insulted. Why is it that someone born in the Great Plains shouldn’t have the experience of living in Lisbon? It is not dissimilar from attitudes I encountered living in various part of the United States — disbelief that someone born in Omaha could be intelligent and capable critical thought, able to enjoy literature and languages and the arts. Why should I not be here, walking these streets, loving the buildings I pass every day or the summer light dimming with autumn as it illuminates the churches and basilicas of my neighborhood? What has always remained unexamined by those asking me how someone born in Omaha should come to live in New York, or San Francisco or Lisbon is why they find it such an anomaly — but that would require probing into their own prejudices, something the American liberal is seemingly incapable of doing.
Honestly, if you are so insulted and mystified by a simple curiosity such as why someone from The Great Plains is living in Lisbon then I think you need to grow thicker skin and reconsider your choice as a blogger.
To add insult to injury you dare call out an entire party of liberals and it is for this reason I am unsubscribing from your right wing blog that that insults people while stating you have been insulted. Good grief and good riddance.
Honestly, if you are so insulted and mystified by a simple curiosity such as why someone from The Great Plains is living in Lisbon then I think you need to grow thicker skin and reconsider your choice as a blogger.
To add insult to injury you dare call out an entire party of liberals and it is for this reason I am unsubscribing from your right wing blog that that insults people while stating you have been insulted. Good grief and good riddance.