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HAPPIER
ABROAD Why You Can Have A Better Life and Love Beyond
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Photo Collage – Part One
(Russia/Europe)
Photo Collage – Part Two
(Philippines)
Photo Collage – Part
Three (Philippines)
Photo Collage – Part
Four (Philippines)
Quotes about me from
readers, fans, and advisors
- How I was “saved abroad” once before
- Why we can’t look to the US media for truth
about a better life abroad
A BIG SECRET I want to
share with you!
Four major things in
America that drove me overseas
Social life,
culture/values and lifestyle
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Highlights
of general differences
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Bland
cookie cutter architecture vs. rich stimulating one
·
Meeting people
– clique restrictions vs. free-flowing
·
Isolation/exclusive
vs. communal/inclusive mentality
- Strange contradiction
in
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Talking to strangers –
·
Only in
- "Breaking
the ice" - proof that Americans are uncomfortable talking to strangers
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Meeting people restricted to parties and
clubs
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Why I am
incompatible with the American social environment
- Social skills with the flow vs. against the flow
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Visual proof of
isolationist US public on ferry ride vs. opposite
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Study shows that more money = less social (validation of my claims)
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Americans by their actions love being lonely
workaholics
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Documented proof of anti-sociality in
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Identity determined by cliques vs. who you are
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Friendships – US vs. most
countries
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Interconnectedness
vs. Separateness: Why Americans overinflate
themselves and try to "fit in"
- a) Why Americans tend to overinflate
their ego/confidence/attitude
- b) The conflicting oxymoron of trying to
"fit in"
- Some offshoot effects of “separateness” in America
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Family harmony
vs. Fight for control
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Artificial smiles/greetings vs. sincere ones
- Study
shows that fake smiles/greetings can lead to bad health
- "How are you?" - How Americans
reinforce fake optimism on each other
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Social
communication style – artificial/plastic front vs. natural/relaxed
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American laughter – constrained/inhibited vs. Foreign
laughter – free-flowing/uninhibited
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Lack of
intellectual curiosity in
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Cultured Foreigners vs.
Uncultured Americans (specific examples)
- Cultured soulful eyes vs. empty soulless eyes
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Intellectuals
young and old
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Persecution of
geeks and nerds -
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Being
different or a misfit = alienation in
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Blacks and
Asians - Inferiority complex vs. wholesome integration
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Why immigrants don’t assimilate well in
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Rich inner life vs. total emphasis on outer
·
Letters from typical
American vs. European youngsters – evidence in their own words
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Young people -
empty bags of air vs. depth
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Nightlife:
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American Culture/Life =
Hype + Consumerism
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Propaganda vs. real life
in America
·
What
immigrants and foreigners say about America that you never hear in the US media
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The US media’s negative
coverage of other countries – Misportrayal vs.
Reality
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Careers and the workaholic
mentality in America
- Attitude
toward work: American/Oriental vs. European/Australian/Latin
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Parable of The Fisherman
and The Investment Banker
- How YOU can live in
freedom and pleasure abroad, the simple SECRET!
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Education and
College – How
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Ideas about freedom and security:
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A simple explanation why American pop culture is dumb and unintellectual
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Film and Media: Entertainment vs. Art
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Inverse
between social atmosphere and paid friendliness
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Fragile/high
strung egos vs. thick skin/carefree attitude
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Bragging and competitiveness of male ego vs. brotherly
camaraderie
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Pseudo-confidence and paranoia - 2 elements of American
personality
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Studies
that show America to be the most dysfunctional in the industrialized world
- Highest prison population in the world
- Higher homicide rates than other industrialized
nations
- Increase
in wealth failed to increase happiness for Americans
- Poorer countries having happier people than
America
- Highest rates of mental illness in the world
- Studies show loneliness
and isolation to be national epidemics in America
- Biggest obesity crisis in the history of the
world
- The
most unhealthy and sick population among industrialized nations
- US slips
down development index
·
Comparing quality of life:
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Europe safer for lone female travelers than America
·
The rigid compartmentalization of American life - Is
it freedom?
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Disadvantageous American
quirks not shared in other cultures
-
Advantageous qualities
of
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Why hippie counter-culture groups aren’t
the answer to my ostracization in America
·
Fattening
processed food vs. wholesome natural food
- A simple way to
lose weight that the
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Public
transportation - USA vs. Europe
·
Except in
Women and dating
· The general attitude of women
·
Meeting
and dating women
· Holding conversations with women
·
European/Russian
women having a combination of the best qualities
·
6 Major advantages of
European/Russian women over American women
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Fear of
rejection becoming unnecessary
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Surplus vs.
shortage of attractive mentally healthy single women
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Beauty
and brains common vs. rare
· Personal ads and New Age groups – US vs. Abroad
- Why personal ads in the
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Admiration vs.
hatred for men
·
The “men are creeps” attitude of American
women
- Weird paranoid fantasies about "stalkers"?
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US
Feminism = female dominance, male bashing, double standards
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Misportrayal
of men in
- A fantastic politically incorrect revealing discussion about women
on Craigs List
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The most anti-social, unapproachable, and paranoid
women in the world
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Unapproachable
force field/bubble vs. giggle/blush: Pictures say a thousand words
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Reaction from women: Hatred/Antisociality
vs. Enthusiasm/Attraction
·
Public
eating places – Europe vs. USA (not about the food)
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Hypocritical
arousal and restraint of desires in our society
- The myth of sexual freedom in
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Women have it WAY easier in the social/dating scene of
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Why
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The sad lonely life of a typical single man in the
- Statistical research shows that the
singles scene in
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Great news for lonely
sexually frustrated men about Philippines and Thailand
·
How a normal guy can have
a lifestyle like Hugh Heffner (and I mean in REAL LIFE not in theory)
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Asian men perceived as
asexual and undesirable in America
- Why
USA is the worst place for Asian men who like white women
- Some
elated responses from Asian American men
·
Great news for Asian and
Black men about Europe
·
The best solution to the Asian
American man’s dating dilemma (an expose by my consultant)
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Dating
advice from mono-national who thinks INSIDE the American box vs. mine
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Response from my cultural consultant to the mono-national advice
- Response
from Asian American intellectual in
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8 reasons why Asian men
have a better social life in Russia than America (from my cultural advisor)
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Never “in the
game” vs. always “in the game”
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Why
American women don’t make good wives - narcissistic and sociopathic
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Lions and
hyenas = Me and American women?
·
10
reasons why I’m forced to look for love beyond America
- Logical reasons why my standards are not “too high”
in America
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“Aren’t foreign women just
after your money and a green card?”
·
Far less risk
abroad for men marrying women half their age
·
Hear from others who
testify that dating is all about location, location, location!
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Why many American men now
prefer foreign women (other perspectives)
Personal psychological issues
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The social
status factor for me
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Collective will/consciousness – metaphysical effect on
social status
·
Having the life of a
popular person
- From little fish in
big pond to big fish in small pond
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Confidence and mental/emotional maturity
accelerated to positive levels overseas
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Perpetual reverse culture
shock
- Hear from college students returning from
abroad who are in reverse culture shock
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Synergy vs. stagnation with life, people,
environment
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Default loneliness/isolation vs. perpetual
connection/bond with people/environment
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Forced loneliness vs. never having to be
lonely
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My
response to those with a “victim-blaming” mentality
- Am I too negative or
hateful about America?
- The sad truth about my negativity and deep
resentment
- Am I a loser? Is this site for losers?
- The alternative to going abroad - Why it’s futile and inferior
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My
responses to common objections to my claims
- “These women only want you for money or a
green card”
- “People are friendlier overseas cause you’re
a tourist and novelty to them”
- “I’ve been to America and do not agree with
your observations”