Transcultural pictures
About a week ago I started taking half-hour walks in the morning, sometimes with my son.
Ethel KVALHEIM Lane
We are both transcultural travelers and therefore our sources of entertainment will never dry up.
The last two days we took our camera to capture aspects of the American suburban culture that in another cultural context might look or sound hilarious or intriguing.
Thus our German friends will savor the name Ethel Kvalheim Lane. As 30% of the local population is of Norwegian ancestry I am sure the word ‘Kval’ in Norwegian has a totally different meaning than the German word ‘Qual’ (‘torture’) and they would not conjure up pictures of Lady Ethel torturing her family in their home (‘Heim’). Or Ethel being the name of a jail where people are tortured, a torture-home. That would make no sense. To make sense she should have changed her name into “Guantanamo Kvalheim’.
The sign “NO CONCEALED WEAPONS BEYOND THIS POINT” will fill with admiration all our friends outside the USA for our courage, bravery and toughness to walk these streets with our weapons concealed. Up to that point, that is.
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