Oh, so everybody's rules apply here, all at the same time? No ****ing way. Touching inappropriately is disrespectful, and there are pretty clear regional standards for what's appropriate.
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Oh, so everybody's rules apply here, all at the same time? No ****ing way. Touching inappropriately is disrespectful, and there are pretty clear regional standards for what's appropriate.
ooh baby, i think i like you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Everlovin [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Like I said, I frankly don't give a damn about people's culture. My personal space trumps it. Invade at your own risk. I'm not the one initiating contact. I'm not initiating anything. MY personal "culture" involves no touching. How dare someone else infringe upon it. Eat with all the chopsticks you want, hug and kiss your Russian friends, so on and so forth. That's none of my business and none of my concern. However, do not attempt to force your culture on me. That's where we have a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Everlovin [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Furthermore, I would say that America most certainly has developed its own culture. You take people from anywhere in the world, you stick them in the US, give it a couple of generations and the children all start popping out in roughly the same few categories regardless of their ancestor's origins. That's our culture now. It's a homogenized hodepodge of other cultures rolled into one and no particular originating thread (outside religion) is taken too seriously. Which is a good thing. It means we're working toward a country of American citizens. Not a splintered collection of Mexicans, Italians, Chinese and so forth huddled together uneasily on the same soil.
Actually, culture wise it is best to observe the customs of the other person. Thus if in their culture it is not appropriate to touch, you don't touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Everlovin [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
As for "Original People's" culture. That would probably apply if this were say, Mexico. Where the Spanish intermixed with the aborigine people. Versus say, the US where the British basically supplanted the indigenous population.
Or should we accept that if in say, Hispanic culture calling someone a puto is punishable by death, that if they kill you it's OK, because it's part of their culture? When a machete wielding Hutu murders my Tutsi neighbor I should be OK with it, because it's a part of their culture? That when a Sunni woman's vagina is mutilated against her will because it's a part of her family's culture?
why oh why are you such an extremist?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lite [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Rationally developed opinions are extreme these days? I guess that isn't terribly surprising.
That's why, oh why. And no need to use it to add drama to your statement. It doesn't actually add anything useful to the discussion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Indignant [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I'm just curious where you draw the line? If a person feels violated by you touching them, are you wrong for touching them, or are are they wrong for not kicking you in the clam for touching them?
Besides, if you don't defend the extremes then eventually the moderate becomes the extreme. It's just part of how our government works. Back in the 50's when people weren't morally strong enough to stand up with people who had communist leanings they were harassed, blackballed, blackmailed, and jailed. During WWII when people weren't morally strong enough to stand up with people of Japanese origin we had them put into internment camps, yet Russians, Italians, and Germans did not experience this treatment even with their involvement in the fighting. (Yes, I know Russia eventually switched sides after the Germans betrayed them.)
I'm just curious. Where do you draw the line? If I came from a society that treated women like objects that I could stone if they showed a bare ankle, saw you in a bikini and started tossing rocks at you. Would you be OK with it in the sense of cultural openness and acceptance?
at this point of the conversaion all i hear is blah blah blah
Well, that's a shame. Lite presented a reasonable argument and all you can do is duck and cover.Quote:
Originally Posted by Indignant [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
how does Lite's ass taste, Gribble?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gribble [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
How does it feel to suffer from delusions of adequacy Dig?Quote:
Originally Posted by Indignant [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
And what is it with you taking other people's threads and turning them into your own personal flaming ground?
can't complain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lite [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
oh yeah, it really takes one person to blame. talk about sexist remarks. i am so tired of males always blaming a woman every chance they get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lite [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
It would appear that you are as ignorant as you are cowardly. I'll do us both a favor and overlook your posts in the future. Clearly you aren't capable of intelligent discourse. Either you ignore disagreement or shift the subject.
make sure you do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gribble [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]