I don't belong to this place

It's nothing new, but it just popped up again.

There has been quite a few Taiwanese movies making a hit at the local box-office recently, and I did not see any of them simply because I can't and don't get them. I'm not resenting this culture, I'm just not into it. At the end of the day, I think it's all about humour. I never laugh at comedic acts they do here, not even the slap-stick ones (lack of quality performance, I suppose). I can't remember how it was when I was a kid, but I didn't laugh that much as a kid. I started laughing when I got older, at college, I suppose, because I was able to finally comprehend even the subtlety of humouristic presentations in English (mostly) and French. Chinese just doesn't do it for me, since my so-called growing pains years (here's something that Taiwanese won't get...another TV reference) were spent completely without the Chinese language, culture, and yes, people.

Now, people here see me as someone who is supposed to be able to get the jokes in Chinese, but I don't, and I never try to understand (people aren't that enthusiastic about telling me the backgroud, since they all suppose that I should know). Thus I have myself disconnected from a place where I currently reside. Should I try to reconnect? I guess that's another choice one has to make in life. There are already too many choices in life; I don't feel like making another one which seems insignificant in the long-run (laziness is creeping back in). Am I happy the way it is? Yes, because I chose to be surrounded by things that make me happy.