The makeup of the population I work with can be roughly divided into 4 categories-- the little bros, the big bros, the beta fish and the family men. Little bros spend all their time drinking and picking up Japanese women. This is like shooting fish in a barrel since the women love officers. When we all go out, the women sit silently behind their date for the evening. Then they go home and have sex. Awkward for me. A good time for them. The big bros have been up to the same antics for long enough it's grown tiresome, and they have actual hobbies. They will talk about more than picking up women. They miss American women. Good to hang out with, but they're still hard-drinking bros. The beta fish don't go out. They stay home and have relationships with their gaming systems. They dream about picking up Japanese women but are afraid to venture out since their social awkwardness is ridiculed by the bros.
Meanwhile, I am hard at work maintaining my own awkwardness. Little bros don't hang with me because I'm too old and have nothing to add to their conquest conversations. Big bros flirt with me but shouldn't get involved with me because we work too closely together. Maybe I should accept that I'm a beta fish hanging out with bros and start learning how to game.
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Oh man, you just have too much culture for the world you find yourself in! Hang in there, and keep up that gift of being able to see all this with the step back of perspective that they don't have.
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