Coming to America

Mama Lai immigrated to America in the 1970s to attend graduate school in Oregon.  When she was picked up by a Chinese family in their sedan from the airport, she looked around and her first impression of America was this:

"Where were all the people?  There was nobody for miles and miles.  Just all this empty land.  And then when we finally got to where civilization was, all I could think was how funny that it is that Americans live in dollhouses.  One Taiwanese earthquake and those houses looked like they would fall flat with nothing left to stand on."