- Moderator
- #41
So, basically, one person insulted you and you have decided that - after 4 years of no issues with anyone - all those people 'hate' you.
How pathetic.
If I took it personally every time some Brit idiot insulted me, I'd hate the whole country. Fortunately, I'm a rational person.
Nope, most my neighbors like us. I'm saying that there are more incidents of bigotry that I've known about in the last ten years I've lived in this county than at any other time of my life.
Prejudice takes all forms. When I moved here to South Carolina, after having lived my entire life in Boston, and started going to grad school here I found people to be kind of stand offish to me when they would first meet me. Once I start talking it's more than obvious where I'm from and I think people down here have a preconceived notion that people from up north are elitist and rude and it's no different than people up north thinking everybody down here is a dumb redneck. After the other students in my classes were around me more and they realized I wasn't the dick they assumed I would be then everything was fine. Everybody has stereotypes and forms impressions of others upon first glance.