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AlCalavicci posted...

society?

Let's say I was a super awkward alien but I could take shape of a human. What are the things that you would show me that would help me fit in? Music, music videos, books to read, etc?

Music or music videos: Skrillex (I guess, I don't really keep up with music these days. I guess the point here would be to show that we have technology capable of creating such music.)
Books: Not sure (I would recommend The Lord of the Rings series, but that would probably just confuse the alien more than anything.)

Basically, I'd just show the alien this list:
Pros
-fairly high-end machines, electronics, & computers
-fairly high-end cyber network (with; text, images, videos, & audio)
-medium-end weapons (handheld combustion projectile weapons, missiles, nukes, etc.)
-no recent wars (mainly because of nukes)
Cons
-too many variants of food products (many of them unhealthy) & restaurants
-too much time, effort, and resources put into entertainment
-the overly rich (& overly large houses)
-too much breeding (resulting in over-population, not enough jobs, and not enough prime living space)
-technology that is reducing the amount of jobs (resulting in high unemployment & societal dissatisfaction)
-non-standardized cars
-non-optimized education system
-non-optimized global society
-not enough use of solar power (or other efficient & safe power sources)
-not enough R&D into new technologies
-low-end medical industry
-stagnation (evolutionary, technological, & societal)
-old governments unwilling to change
-cyber security nightmare (very poorly regulated & exploitation of international laws)
-type 0 (out of 3) society (we don't have full domination over our own planet yet (nor have our governments merged into a world government))