Carl Hoffman Equal Same But Different Summary

Carl Hoffman is finally in his own country with his own people, America. While reading the chapter, “Same, Same, but Different”, I feel like Carl Hoffman was happy that he was in his own country, America but also I felt like he was missing his trip and those people who he met during his trip.

On page 271, in the second paragraph, Carl Hoffman said, “we hit Vegas that afternoon, and America seemed like the saddest place I’d seen in a month.” I felt worried because Vegas is the very popular city which has so many in Vegas, still, he thought that it's the saddest place he had seen. On page 272, Carl Hoffman said, “But this was Vegas, This was America.” And then he started to talk about some of the people which he met during his trip and with whom he was really comfortable and happy with. He talks about who would invite him for lunch or dinner in America just like some of the people was doing with Carl Hoffman. There were so many nice people during his trip and he was missing them when he returned to America.
He is right, America is the lot different than many other countries. The people are different, their nature is different, places are different and may more. But I guess Carl Hoffman really like the undeveloped countries and also their peoples over theirs. He likes how they were taking care of him, how they were asking him for lunch and they were praying for him and for his safe journey. He was missing that in America because there was no one to do that kind of things for him except his