Checklist for ‘Happier Abroad’ Target
Audience
Do any of the following statements fit you?
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You feel like a fish out of water in
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You find a society where people don’t make eye contact with
others and work to death just to “survive” to be a meaningless uninspiring existence.
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All your life you were surrounded by peers
and classmates who believed that the primary purpose in life was to study hard
so they could make lots of money and retire comfortably in old age, to the
point of obsession. Yet you felt that
there was something wrong with that belief and way of life, but you never dared
speak out about it due to the fear of being seen as weird or a freak. You felt like you were the only one who
wasn’t an automaton.
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You don’t share the cultural belief in America that life is
all about having a successful career, being a workaholic, and fitting into
exclusive social cliques, until you retire in your 50’s or 60’s way past your
prime.
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You are not into the rat race lifestyle or consumerism
culture which teaches that buying things leads to happiness.
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You seem to relate and connect best with freespirits, artists, actors, writers, intellectuals and
travelers, or New Age progressive types, finding very little in common with
average Americans who merely live to make money and consume, lacking the
capacity to question things.
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You have a European or Latin mentality that the primary
purpose of life is not making money and developing a career, but to have RICH
EXPERIENCES.
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You are a nonconformist, freespirit,
and live a Bohemian lifestyle (and I don’t mean that of a drug using hippie), and
wonder if you would be better accepted by some culture/society outside the
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You are a freespirit, freethinker
or counter-culturalist in your views, but not a
long-haired hippie who uses such views as an excuse to smoke pot and parade
around the country with other hippies to attend music concerts of esoteric wanna-be bands.
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You don’t feel that your soul clicks or fits in American
culture and society. You are drawn to or
attracted to foreign cultures, as if your soul belongs elsewhere.
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You find American pop culture, society, and lifestyle to be
boring, unintellectual, pointless, and unfulfilling.
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You feel that there is something wrong with the people,
culture, society, and mentality in America but can’t quite put your finger on
it and are afraid to voice it due to fear of condemnation.
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You feel like a misfit in America or feel discontent but
are afraid to complain or talk about it openly due to fear of being seen as a
freak, loser or going against the flow.
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You are perpetually dissatisfied with social life, dating
scene, and anti-social mentality in
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You often feel like you’re in a sci
fi movie or the Twilight Zone, where everyone around
you is infected with some kind of anti-social disease and don’t like to
interact or meet people, while you seem to be the only one immune.
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You are a nice, outgoing, sociable, interesting, positive
person in
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You find it hard to vibe with the average American, finding
little in common with them, and you find the conversations at parties to be
shallow, trite, and dull.
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You feel that people and their conversations/communication
styles in the
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You feel completely EXCLUDED from the dating scene in
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You are a decent man who finds that despite what
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You are a lonely sexually frustrated man in the
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You are wild, uninhibited, or have strong desires of some
sort that are condemned in the states.
Thus, acting on your desires is inappropriate or “out-of-bounds” in the
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You like to have fun, meet great people, and date great
people but aren’t having any luck breaking into the right “social cliques” and
find it unnatural and awkward to even try.
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You are such a sociable, outgoing, people person at heart
that you talk to strangers as if you already know them. However, you feel awkward about it due to the
barrier of “breaking the ice” with strangers in
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You didn’t break into a good social clique early on in
life, find it difficult to break into cliques around you, lack connections, and
thus feel out of luck since most people in America limit their social life to
people within the cliques they grew up with.
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You find Americans in general to not be friendly or
sociable, despite what anti-social Americans claim, and you are sure the
problem is not you.
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You constantly feel that everyone is an “island” in
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You believe that due to corrupt
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You “discovered yourself” on an overseas trip, and found
that you somehow evolved or grown in a special, phenomenal way that wouldn’t
have been possible in
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You are a perpetual traveler or want to be one and haven’t
bought into the
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You are unhappy in America and you KNOW that seeking help
from therapy/counseling or changing your attitude through self-help/New Age
books/programs, however well-meaning, will not give you what you need, and that
a bigger change is needed.