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I'm all for real life and for meeting new people, but it's important to make a distinction between meeting a particular kind of people and meeting random people
by asdflkj 18y ago
I'm all for real life and for meeting new people, but it's important to make a distinction between meeting a particular kind of people and meeting random people. There are already many cities and neighborhoods in the US where particular kinds of people gather and meet each other.
On the other hand, your average inhabitant of a "regular" place in the US (including all of suburbia) is someone I want to keep as far out of my mind as possible. "Real communities" would make this task much harder.
- stcredzero 18y agoThis says a lot about American society -- that we no longer have enough of a civic life to promulgate manners. If there were more "real communities" with a sense of both tolerance and manners, there wouldn't be any need to avoid the "average" American. Such places exist in Europe. That they don't exist here indicates that it's a peculiarity of the US, and not of "real communities" in general.