Re: Break in the JonBenet Ramsey case

jmorngstar@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Not to comment on Susan, regular Northerners, or the comments,
> people in Alaska are different.

Everybody's "different." I've known only a handful of Alaskans, but I've never known any of them to be downright rude and generalize the way Susan does. I'm sure there are some people who think along the same lines, but not every Alaskan is going to think and act that way--and certainly not all. We just can't generalize and assume that everyone who lives in a certain place will think like everyone else living in that place about any given thing.

> Argentines would think nothing of the first thing out of their
> mouth when you walked in the door after not seeing them for 18
> months, of saying something about the large pimple on your
> nose.

That's not a generalization, though. That's a direct comment to a specific person.

> Okay, now back to Alaskans. To Alaskans, every other place in
> the US is called "outside." There is nothing good about
> "outside." There is not particularly anything good about
> anyone from "outside." True

Everybody has "outsiders," though. That goes for state to state, city to city, etc. We don't have to be downright rude and insulting to people because we're all different.

> They feel the need to apologize for me being as liberal as I
> am, make excuses for me not knowing any better when I talk
> about saving the wolves and ng people who don't know any better
> (let them get killed by a moose they will soon learn).
>
> You know I keep going back because I love the country. The
> things they complain about are things that I have to accept in
> my every day life "outside." Their narrow mindedness as a
> population in the whole is . . .

But differing viewpoints about the conversation issue (as well as other political issues) are found throughout ALL of our U.S. states.

> Now, I know that I am painting a very wide brush here . . .

That's exactly my point. Are you going to insult someone who lives in another state because you have a preconceived idea that everyone in that state ALL think the same things about a certain topic? I don't think so--and that's exactly my point.

> and Floyd will probably show back up and dispute it, but he is
> a fine example of what I speak.

I don't know who Floyd is. He could be an idiot or an Einstein, for all I know; but I certainly wouldn't assume everyone in his region thought the same way about any given subject. Heck, all the members in my family live in the same city and don't agree on a lot of things, and I'm betting everybody else's aren't likely to agree on everything, either.

> I love my friends and have met very few people in Alaska that I
> wouldn't break bread with, or invite to my home, but it is a
> constant battle for me to overlook some of their preconceived
> ideas of what "outside" and "outsiders" are really like. Mind
> you, many of these people were not born in Alaska,
> but feel Home now that they are there.

Bet you still try to be civil towards them, though. Seems to me that we just can't presume to know what a person thinks just by where they come from nor where they live. But if we do have preconceived notions about people in any given area, I don't think it's in good taste to be downright insulting to them on public boards.

Karen C.
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