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Originally posted by Dottore
I think my point was that parts of the US south are extreme in their intolerance of people who are somehow different in appearance or mentality. The reaction is one of suspicion, distrust and even aggression.
I don't know many places in the world where such general intolerance is accepted as being part of the 'culture'.
As svandamme points out correctly - in Europe the attitude to someone who looks different and doesn't fit in would be to "stand back and enjoy the circus" - not to get aggressive and ugly about it. (I'm of course not talking about the deep rooted ethnic animosities you find in communities everywhere - but rather about the general intolerance of others and other ways that you find in parts of the south.)
There's a much greater general tolerance and civility in Europe about such matters that you would be very hard-pressed to find in parts of the US south.
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What unmitigated bravo sierra...you need to get out more with your "tolerant" friends who won't ever visit America.
Writing in homilies is as meaningless and wrong as your attitudes concerning America.
Your intolerance, and insistence that you are right to those whom you have offended, is telling.