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There was this time where I was in the mountains, in company of mountain people. These people where quite friendly but one of them kept making jokes about me be

by zimbatm 14y ago

There was this time where I was in the mountains, in company of mountain people. These people where quite friendly but one of them kept making jokes about me being from the city, how we couldn't handle alcohol and how lame we where. At the moment I understood that this guy wasn't really mean but that he was clumsy. He didn't know how to approach my differences and did it so aggressively. Just taking the "jokes" well hardheartedly and sending some back showed him that I'm also a human like him. Just to say. What we need is not more laws but more compassion.

b6 14y ago
Well said. I'm an American in China, and I find that Chinese people who hate me for crazy reasons are pure gold for improving relations between our two societies, because onlookers get to compare what is being said with how I'm acting, and can see for themselves that the two don't match up. If the author had been cool about it, he might have succeeded in changing their minds. It seems impossible that shaming and scolding and scaring them could be as effective.