Our younger son, raised as an urban Orthodox child in Seattle, went off to a nominally-Protestant college in a small town in Oregon. I expected him to learn to live in a new culture.
His assigned roommate turned out to be nice Jewish kid from LA. (You have seen their room: icons on George\'s side and Jewish memorabilia on Joel\'s!). They understood each other, but they spent most of the first semester hiding out in their room because they couldn\'t figure out the small town people and didn\'t expect the WASPs to understand them.
Bit by bit it got better.
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