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Antivehicular posted:I don't know if this helps on the "cultural insult" level, but I am white as hell and got the same idiot question repeatedly after my family moved from Fairbanks to the lower 48 when I was in middle school. My mom apparently got asked a ton of times if she was going to live in an igloo after she announced she was moving, back in the 70's, to the point that someone asked what color igloo she wanted. (My mother is a special-education teacher, but this was not a question from one of her students. Apparently the entire concept of living in Alaska gives people the IQ of a gelatin mold.) One of my buddies here in Calgary moved down to the States with his family when he was in middle school. Calgary is a city of a million people, located three hours from US border. He still got asked he lived in an igloo. Igloos seem to be one of the most fascinating and perplexing thing to people from the mainland US. I really can't explain it.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:It's an ice house, ISN'T IT COLD, why doesn't it just melt as soon as you go inside, what do you think of real houses? It's like magic to them. Oh, and I forgot to mention: one of the people who asked this was his teacher. Onto an actual question: do you feel that you have more in common, culturally or in whatever other way you want to describe, with a native person from the lower 48, or with a non-native Alaskan?
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Aryan Jesus posted:Aren't you the one from the land of the 24 hour sun? It gets dark here every night Yeah, but on the other hand, it gets light every day. How do people in Alaska deal with the long nights and lack of sunlight? A lot of people around here get seasonal depression in the winter; is that a large problem in Alaska as well, or have people come up with good ways of coping with it?
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'd answer the last question but I haven't been up there since I was a little kid. Canadians were always way friendlier when they found out we were Alaskans though. That's because we know you won't ask us about igloos 
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