Culture Shock My upper-middle class hometown of Mendon doesn’t offer much diversity. In fact, my only real contact to any accents or skin colors other than my own is through my job at McDonalds. Once, I incorrectly punched in an order from an Indian family, for which my manager chastised me. Rather than accepting my mistake, I blamed the family’s trouble with the language. “If you’re in America and can’t speak English, that’s your problem,...

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