It?s kind of crazy to me that with globalization and all that, even when you go around the world it?s all starting to look the same (with the same stores and stuff) and the natural landscapes and cultures tend to get diminished unless they get modernized. I traveled a ways across the state today and I had to go inside a wal-mart here and I felt like I was in a spacial rift because it looks just like the one at my hometown. I also went to NYC recently and there?s so many of the same stores! Of course I?m a consumer and I love buying stuff, but I think about weird stuff like that sometimes since I love learning about other languages and cultures