For any curious traveler, the hope that you?ll arrive at your destination, instantly blend in and be left to explore your new home is a strong one.
That hope was instantly dashed for me when I first came to Asia eight years ago, a 1.8-meter, overweight, Caucasian American.
The last time I weighed myself the dial only stopped moving once it hit the maximum 100-kilo mark.
In contrast, the inhabitants of my new home, Vietnam, are slender and shorter due to a combination of diet and genetics. Individuals here rarely, if ever, attain sizes comparable to my own.
I can never hope to blend in. I might as well be Gulliver in Lilliput.
Source: http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/adam-bray-being-fat-makes-me-famous-354265
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