Personal Narrative: The Game Of Basketball

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People coming from a different planet would think every day things we do in life are weird. What we have adapted to and think are normal look very weird to others who haven’t seen people doing things like this. Such as someone who has never shaved before would think that is very odd to shave your beard. Or someone who has never seen a drive threw would think it’s weird to have people have food handed out the window. As we think other cultures are weird we have to look at the fact that our culture is weird to others
People that have never seen basketball would thing it is a bunch of people running around with a ball. They wouldn’t understand how the game of basketball works. It would be hard to explain to someone how the game of basketball

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