The Shocking Thing? This Is Completely Normal And American, And Actually Not Shocking At All.

The neat thing is this is just a regular story about American values. If only everyone saw it that way.

By

Feb 26, 2014

Add to Google News

Tags

democracy diversity and equality empathy for all human condition humanity and culture

More for You

leonardo da vinci, da vinci, the last supper, last supper, last supper mosaic

Over 113,233 people worldwide recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ in a photo mosaic

new jersey, hiking, appalachian trail

New Jersey high school has mandatory rite of passage: 55-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail

psilocybin, alzheimers, dementia, memory loss, medicine, healthcare, wellness, medical breakthrough, mushrooms, psychedelics, drugs, modern medicine, science

A woman with Alzheimer’s hadn’t spoken in 5 years. A dose of psilocybin changed everything.

TikTok, homework, mix-up, viral videos, students

Her account got hacked. The ‘hacker’ had finished weeks of her physics homework.

butter, west coast butter, east coast butter, bread, us map

The big East versus West Coast debate we slept on: Whose butter is better?

Advertisement

Featured

All Featured Stories →

China, reforestation, kindness, desert, reunion

A teacher helped a woman plant trees in the desert. She found him 27 years later.

Adam Albright-Hanna & Upworthy Staff

colonial america, american colonists, 13 colonies, george washington, colonial english

This is exactly what Colonial Americans sounded like, according to dialect coach

Emily Shiffer

Pride, pride parade, Durham UK, miners

After a UK city defunded their Pride parade, trade unions raised money to fund it

Jacalyn Wetzel

Navy SEAL, sniper, parenting, dad advice

How a former Navy SEAL used his sniper training to shape his approach to parenting

Jacalyn Wetzel