Thank you, but you didn´t have to rephrase the sentence. I understand what you were trying to say. I just jokingly pointed out the inconsistency in your posts.
About changing the title: it´s not about pleasing other people. It is about right and wrong. The title is cleary racist and sexist. I am pretty surprised that you are not able to see it and that it hasn´t been moderated yet.
Why are you insulting people? Starting off with criticizing a whole nation (state) because you (and other foreign people around you) have had bad personal experiences is definitely not being courteous.
You do sound unpleasant, crude and rude.
Your words don´t make any sense.
What is your problem? What kind of suggestions are you asking for? Why do you try to solve this problem by talking to foreigners on Internet instead of talking to locals in your physical life?
You know what? Don´t feel like you have to answer. Feel free to call me names, too. I don´t even care.
What is Inconsistent in my posts? If you follow them from the very begining , they are perfectly consistent and make perfect sense, and of course, because I´ve been posting frequently and in a lengthy fashion, sometimes, I might forget to include some minute details or make typos. Otherwise they don´t become inconsistent just because you guys disagree and find it unpleasent.
I said again and again, that the generalization does not necessarily apply to everyone, there are always exceptions, but it is a good summary of the average. I also indicated that it does not necessarily apply to the whole country but at least the New England Area.
What do you mean, "call you names?" I haven´t called anyone names or targeted anyone personally here except that Burak guy, who was being utterly personally insulting and racist. On the contrary, you guys were targeting me personally. Maybe you missed the point but post #45 is intended for him only, not you guys.
And I wonder who doesn´t make sense but react abruptly with such "counter-offensive" attitude? My comments might for sure sound unpleasent, since it is a "criticism", why is that an insult? Now that sentence,
"New England culture is extremely cold to foreigners, and people are really acting fake in most relations to foreigners and dont want to be involved with them."
It´s for sure a strong criticism, and the gist of what I´ve been saying, but how on earth is it an insult? The fakeness of the human relations is even admitted by Many of my American friends!
If you´d like to help me for example, explain to me why it might seem or sound "fake" or "cold" to us, although it actually isn´t (allegedly). Instead of just blaming me and thousands of others for being rude or crude just because I am criticizing the culture, just tell me YOUR perspective, why things are the way they are, try to create an empathy, and maybe I will end up thinking, "Oh, maybe I was being unfair, maybe I would behave the way they behave in their shoes..."
This is how a civil conversation sounds. You guys need to be able to suck it up and overbear the criticisms you incur just like I was able to keep an open-mind and tolerate all the racisms in Europe or the clear discriminations I get exposed here. I still think people are inherently decent, there is just something that screws up their attitudes towards foreigners, and I am trying to understand it.
Edited (4/8/2011) by newquaker
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