Fine humor gone wildly wrong

A couple of years back I read a book titled The Inscrutable Americans written by Anurag Mathur. The book was largely comical and made a nice read. Its protagonist Gopal, a small town boy, comes to America for his education. The book takes readers through journey of Gopal during his stay as a student. It has many hilarious moments, which speaks for the quality and subtlety of humor. One of the lines from initial chapters is still in my mind. Its from a letter that Gopal writes to his brother back in India. The line was ..... .. .. ..

" Most surprising thing about America is it is full

of Americans. Everywhere Americans, Americans, big and white, it is
little frightening...... .. .."

I too have arrived as a student in this part of world. In the city of Los Angeles. But, I'm not sure if I could reuse the phrase that Gopal used in his letter. At the airport, I felt like I landed in some south American cum Chinese place. The next day we(room mates) went to San Fransisco. I could have used that phrase there, perhaps.

My classes have begun and I travel for 3-4 hours on the days of classes. Most people in buses/trains are either of south American origin or of south asian origin. Spanish, Brazilians, Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese etc are in large numbers. Here, in buses and trains they announce the name of stop/place before it arrives along with regular safety instructions. They are done in two languages, English and Latin/Spanish/Mohican/Portuguese. I've not been able to figure out which of the four languages is the second one. My classmate who lives pretty close by my place said in LA only 10 percent people are locals. Quite often I feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere. Phew....!!!!

ISBN: 8171670407
Price: Rs 95
Published: 1990