In one trial, a white, goateed, middle-aged man came up as most resembling the young black comedian Chris Tucker — and onlookers exclaimed, "You know, I can see that."
But even so, American culture is still a big leap for most of them, because observing something as an outsider is definitely different than experiencing it on one’s own.
We - - we lose so much of our open history without noticing and as an outsider, as a foreigner with fresh eyes I can see that, you know, there was something here that was being taken down, demolished, removed.
In another revealing story, Catholic seminarians strode past a distressed bystander while in a hurry to give a lecture on the parable of the good Samaritan.
It could be anything from a figure standing in front of a mountain and you see another one with a figure standing on a mountain and a figure standing in front of a field. And pretty soon you start collecting onlooker postcards.