Posted on 10/16/2018 4:58:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
A few years ago my wife and I were doing the tour of the opera house in San Jose, Costa Rica. We were in the balcony and a tour group was on stage looking around. They were talking, but we couldn’t make out the words. They were quite obviously white. Right away my wife said they couldn’t be Americans—they looked too much alike. Turns out they were from Austria.
Here in the Southeast where WaWa has just recently entered the market, The Publix Supermarket chain works in the same way about ownership. Founded in 1930 by Harold Jenkins in Lakeland Florida, it too is a welcoming presence like WaWa in terms of clean stores, friendly people, large selections and generally good prices. For decades the stores were closed on Sundays but with losing business to competitors, they opened for 7 day business in 1982.
In grad school, I had a conversation with a girl from China who told me she wanted to stay in the US. She was married to a German guy and that in Germany, she would always be different and the natives would never consider her a true German. In the US, she could be American and it wouldn’t matter where she was from.
It’s been decades since that conversation. I hope she got her wish.
Well, I most certainly care for what my heritage is, but skin color......no.
Pardon my ignorance, but wtf is “WaWa”??
You might and maybe should care about your heritage, but I don’t.
Not in a bad way, but like Prager wrote, who cares if he’s Jewish? That’s the point he was trying to get across.
I have no particular heritage outside of American. My dad’s side of the family can trace back to colonial times so I guess that’s our heritage.
WAWA is a chain of gas stations and convenience stores along the east coast. I’ve seen them in Florida too.
I asked Elizabeth Warren for a translation but as I understand, WAWA is an Indian word for Goose. I think the founder lived in goose hunting areas.
In addition to the coffee I mentioned, they also have a pretty good grill selection, all made to order. I had a turkey and gravy sub a few weeks ago that was incredible. On Sunday, I was getting home from a camping trip and stopped to get one, Sadly, they just ran out of turkey. Bummer/
Thanks. Being an “east coast” entity explains why I never ran across it (I am currently on the west coast...Washington and originally from Louisiana).
a chain of gas stations and convenience stores along the east coast.Pardon my ignorance, but wtf is “WaWa”?? - Wonder Warthog
I can add that my mother, a teacher of second grade (definitely not a “second-grade” teacher), sometimes took her charges on a field trip to the HQ of Wawa. I would date that to about 1960, maybe earlier - but at that time I knew Wawa strictly as a dairy.Its locale, BTW, was/is not far from the Pennsylvania-Delaware border.
Beautiful.
True. It is something to be proud of. Sometimes I think that, if it weren’t for the deliberately divisive Rats, that could be obvious to everyone.
But they want everyone divided into their own cultural silo so they can pit them against each other.
The Democrat party is dependent on having fresh meat for its victims.
So true. Americans in general are polite and certainly caring. Who are the first on the scene whenever there’s a tragedy or natural disaster? The US.
Dennis Prager is a national treasure.
Excellent post. You are so right.
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