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"fairly educated european white male". IYI And no, "we" do not all see rural US as Cletus Spucklers. You certainly do.
by alva 10y ago
"fairly educated european white male". IYI
And no, "we" do not all see rural US as Cletus Spucklers. You certainly do.
- lorenzhs 10y agoI suppose "IYI" here means "Intellectual Yet Idiot"? That's not the level at which we lead discussions on this site. Save for the people who've actually been to rural America, people's opinion here of rural Americans certainly is very undifferentiated.
- alva 10y ago"we see the rural US as a bunch of Cletus Spucklers" but that is a level you are happy with?
- ainiriand 10y agoNo. I believe that we have globalization but basically we don't know much about culture from other parts of the world, or what worries they have. We swim in a sea of misconceptions and archetypes.
- lorenzhs 10y agoIt's not a personal attack, it's trying to present a viewpoint without endorsing it. That's a big difference.
- ainiriand 10y agoI am trying to generate a hyperbole to run my hypotesis. I am most certainly based on misconceptions and prejudices, but not cartoon misconceptions. But you might try to speak with any european and they will talk about how uneducated and backwards rural US is.
- alva 10y ago"I am most certainly based on misconceptions and prejudices, but not cartoon misconceptions" "we see the rural US as a bunch of Cletus Spucklers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cletus_Spuckler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cletus_Spuckler Literally a cartoon stereotype of rural Americans. I do hope this is just an epic troll.
- ainiriand 10y agoI do hope you know what an hyperbole is and how it helps to set an argument.