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I keep thinking about how there's such a lot of YA books and TV series about USAian high school, and how this is such a subject of instant boredom to me.
Of course, I haven't gone to high school in USA so I can't relate and maybe it's really important and recognizable for USA readers and watchers, but I never went to a college in USA either, and I _am_ able to enjoy college stories (and there seem to be plenty of non-USA people loving TV series about spoiled rich high schoolers and their social games and stuff). And in general I do enjoy stories not related to my experience... (okay, I hate prison stories, but that's more understandable).
Maybe it's because it's _partial_ relatedness to my experience. And maybe it's because all those stories seem to center on the school being a tribe with weird and complicated social customs (which sound unbelievable. Though I once asked on a mailing list and people answered that yes, there really are unwritten rules about who sits where in a diner, or something), and these customs do sound boring.
Or maybe I am at the age when teenagers in general do sound a bit boring.
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Of course, I haven't gone to high school in USA so I can't relate and maybe it's really important and recognizable for USA readers and watchers, but I never went to a college in USA either, and I _am_ able to enjoy college stories (and there seem to be plenty of non-USA people loving TV series about spoiled rich high schoolers and their social games and stuff). And in general I do enjoy stories not related to my experience... (okay, I hate prison stories, but that's more understandable).
Maybe it's because it's _partial_ relatedness to my experience. And maybe it's because all those stories seem to center on the school being a tribe with weird and complicated social customs (which sound unbelievable. Though I once asked on a mailing list and people answered that yes, there really are unwritten rules about who sits where in a diner, or something), and these customs do sound boring.
Or maybe I am at the age when teenagers in general do sound a bit boring.
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