11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
8 p.m.
On 10/11/2012 10:15 PM, MikeS wrote:
Alexey is right, I was also speaking of myself. I USED TO BE a member
of that group, and to an extent I still am...but less so than I used to be.
I was mortified when it finally dawned on me just how clueless I was,
and it wasn't all that long ago. Say about six years...when I started
dating Columbian woman. I spent about two years with her. That
experience really humbled me, and I was deeply embarrassed by what I
didn't know. I made it a point to learn all I could from her and her
friends. It was an eye-opening experience.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
That was
totally uncalled for. Dave was describing a sterotype about a
group OF WHICH HE IS A MEMBER, you are comparing him to racists who blame
all the worlds problems on a group of OUTSIDERS. This is completely
different. I think you need to apologise.
Alexey
----- Reply:
As a matter of fact I see a fair bit of that on this list as well, by the
same group of regulars: stereotypical judgement and blaming of OUTSIDERS,
i.e. ignorant 'lusers' who don't know or care how their computers work, the
intricacies of TCP/IP or their operating system, who top post, use M$
software, etc. etc., and are perhaps busy running businesses, performing
brain operations, whatever, instead...
And Dave is of course implying that he's NOT a member of the group he's
disparaging; after all, HE knows that they speak Portuguese in Brazil!
As a matter of fact he is in fact echoing and defending the stereotypical
view of "people in other countries," i.e. OUTSIDERS... (and thus perhaps
even offending some of "them" ;-)