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What does it mean when the article says "perhaps we can credit it to his Midwestern roots for his drive"? I've never lived in America long enough to understand
by mallipeddi 17y ago
What does it mean when the article says "perhaps we can credit it to his Midwestern roots for his drive"? I've never lived in America long enough to understand the differences between Americans from different parts. Anyone willing to give me a crash course?
- olefoo 17y agoThe short version: People who grow up on farms or in farming communities are widely supposed to be honest, plain spoken, unassuming and religious. People who grow up in the big cities of the east coast are expected to be cunning, devious, greedy, atheistic and untrustworthy. People who grow up in the affluent suburbia of the west coast are generally thought of as creative, decadent, and prone to inappropriate cultural exploration, believing in strange gods, making love to trees, etc. In reality these regional stereotypes are as misleading as any national caricature.
- njharman 17y agoI thought it had a lot more to do with the puritan/protestant work ethic than farming.
- defen 17y agoTom Wolfe has a good intro to it here, using Robert Noyce of Intel as a prototypical Midwestern American: http://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/102.html http://www.forbes.com/asap/1997/0825/102.html