[Culturechat] Burned bridges

[Marlene Rodgers]

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My like?  I am not even sure what my like is.  I am sure I don't know 
what your like is.  I probably would agree with you on many things and 
other things not but I do know we miss too much, there are too many 
subtleties and complexities in people,  to lump them into "the likes of 
them".  Perhaps it sounds cliche, you may say PC, but I do know that it 
is always a mistake to make such  generalities about people or groups 
of people. Most of us do it  to some degree but it is never wise and I 
believe we should at least make some attempt at restraining this 
beastly tendency.
Yes, I am quite sure you could show me patronizing but I would rather 
you not.  Perhaps arrogant and dismissive would have been better words 
but it sounded more harsh than I had wanted.

Marlene


  "That would be a good idea."  -Gandhi, asked by a reporter for his 
opinion of Western Civilization.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 12:35 PM, VCR wrote:

>>
>> My first reaction Vance, on your comment that you found it nice to 
>> see Vivianne not mad all the time was oh, that is a bit patronizing. 
>> I know that is how I would feel to have that said to me.
>
>
> The only time I met Vivianne, she was quite pleasant. She is biased 
> with reason. She lives in France and is likely more French than 
> American by now. That's her problem not ours. I enjoy Alsace because 
> it isn't really French. The Alsatians are Alsatian first and French 
> second. Read their history. They have been German in odd years and 
> French in even.
>
> Patronizing?? I can show you patronizing. Neither her comment to me 
> nor mine to her was patronizing. I don't expect to change you or your 
> like anyway.
>
> BTW, we just spent a day in Gruyere. They speak French, German, 
> English, and God knows what without looking down their noses at > anyone.
>
> -- 
> Vance Roy
> gigli.saw@dplanet.ch
>
> Autopsy, burn, and bury, you want to be sure.
> Winston Churchill on hearing of the death of a political opponent.
>
>
>
>

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My like?  I am not even sure what my like is.  I am sure I don't know
what your like is.  I probably would agree with you on many things and
other things not but I do know we miss too much, there are too many
subtleties and complexities in people,  to lump them into "the likes
of them".  Perhaps it sounds cliche, you may say PC, but I do know
that it is always a mistake to make such  generalities about people or
groups of people. Most of us do it  to some degree but it is never
wise and I believe we should at least make some attempt at restraining
this beastly tendency. 

Yes, I am quite sure you could show me patronizing but I would rather
you not.  Perhaps arrogant and dismissive would have been better words
but it sounded more harsh than I had wanted.


Marlene



<color><param>0000,0000,DDD9</param> "That would be a good idea." 
-Gandhi, asked by a reporter for his opinion of Western Civilization.</color>


On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 12:35 PM, VCR wrote:


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My first reaction Vance, on your comment that you found it nice to see
Vivianne not mad all the time was oh, that is a bit patronizing. I
know that is how I would feel to have that said to me.

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The only time I met Vivianne, she was quite pleasant. She is biased
with reason. She lives in France and is likely more French than
American by now. That's her problem not ours. I enjoy Alsace because
it isn't really French. The Alsatians are Alsatian first and French
second. Read their history. They have been German in odd years and
French in even.


Patronizing?? I can show you patronizing. Neither her comment to me
nor mine to her was patronizing. I don't expect to change you or your
like anyway.


BTW, we just spent a day in Gruyere. They speak French, German,
English, and God knows what without looking down their noses at anyone.


-- 

Vance Roy

gigli.saw@dplanet.ch


Autopsy, burn, and bury, you want to be sure.

Winston Churchill on hearing of the death of a political opponent.





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