Author: Todd Durham
Date: 16:32:07 11/23/00
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On November 22, 2000 at 12:51:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Great prose, pal. And of course I concur with your feeling. It amazes me once >and again the extremes of prudery that many americans can reach, many times the >same people that does not hesitate to fire one of his many weapons againts a guy >because it touched his car with a finger. What evidence do you have to support this claim? I've never heard of this particular crime occuring at all, much less having so many of them that we can determine that the perpetrators are usually of puritanical religous convictions. Really, Fernando, why make up such stories, and then generalise from them? As for the extremes of prudery that many americans reach, let me just say that most people from foreign countries just don't realize how big the USA really is. (People from China, Russia and a few other places seems to grasp the idea, though.) The US has roughly 270 million citizens spread out over a continent. This doesn't count all of the tourists, legal aliens and illegal aliens that live here. There's a lot of damn near _everything_ here. >I remember in one ocasion a child of >about 15 years, member of this group, that flamed me because a word or two. My >God, in my culture prudery is more or less thing of old, somewhat idiotic, >alzheimer kind of people, but you expect from youngs exactly the contrary. >Puritanism still alive? Politically correct discourse? Hipocrecy? What is the >secret? Why this problem with words and thoughts that does not fit with the >prevailing culture of conformism and put-under-the-carpet-anything-ugly? I always here about this prevailing cultural conformism in the US, and I just don't see it. Don't mistake the fact that there's a MacDonald's on every corner with cultural conformism. I guarantee that the culture where Dr. Hyatt lives is far different from where I grew up in the suburbs of Orlando, Florida. And the attitudes of Gainesville, Florida, where I lived for about six years were different from Orlando, even though they're only about 90 miles apart. And now that I'm living and working around Baltimore, Maryland, I feel like I'm living on a different planet. Whenever I here someone talking about cultural conformism in the USA, I know they don't know what they're talking about. (And that includes when I hear Americans say it.) Todd
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