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> my hunch is it has roots in feelings of intellectual superiority As well as good old fashioned, 'fear of people with different values and culture than your o
by arcanus 10y ago
> my hunch is it has roots in feelings of intellectual superiority
As well as good old fashioned, 'fear of people with different values and culture than your own'
- refurb 10y agoReminds me of a guy I knew in San Francisco. He was talking to a friend of mine who grew up in Georgia and was Indian (South Asian). He starts off with "Wow! That must have be tough growing up as an Indian in Georgia! Those guys are so backward." My friend replies "Actually, I had a great childhood. Never had any problems being Indian. Georgia is a great place to grow up." Of course the guy from SF had never actually been to Georgia.
- gozur88 10y agoThat's pretty normal. I hear people who've never been south of the Mason-Dixon bashing the South on a regular basis. They get all their information from coastal journalists. Who've never been there either. These are the same people who would bristle if you said something bad about people in another country and say "How do you know? You can't understand a place by reading about it in the newspaper."