well, i got to experience that twice twice yesterday at a friend's wedding and at the reception!
it was a Mexican wedding so of course there were more Mexicans there than Americans so that was the first sign of awkwardness! second, they were all Catholic and i'm Baptist so that felt weird! let's just say that i couldn't tell what was a Mexican tradition or a Catholic tradition. i was told it would be bi-lingual but i didn't understand the english words well since the priest had a Russian accent!
at the reception, i felt like all eyes were on me but not only cuz i was the only white girl there for a long time but because i was the only one not dancing to their Mexican music. i told them that i didn't wanna make a fool in front of myself and they eventually left me along but i still felt left out. not many of them spoke english so that was tough too. i did manage to learn that the drinking age in Mexico is 9 :D all the signs posted were in Spanish but it was the basics that i learned while being in school.
i wanted to post this as a blog because i wanna know if there's anyone else out there that has been a minority in their own country? and if so, how did you feel about it?
