<p>In order to survive everyday, people need a preconceived set of beliefs. These beliefs, or generalization/stereotypes, help people to not fear the unknown. That's why people hold onto those beliefs with such steadfast will. If they are proven wrong, they fall into meaninglessness, which is pretty dangerous.</p>
<p>To that guy about the WWE (that's what it's called now) why is it so hard to understand? It's the same reason why women watch soap operas. Personally, I'm not too interested with the soap opera stuff. (and HATED them using a dead guy to enhance sales. To me it's despicable) I watch the matches. Some suck, but some are really good. And although the soap opera stuff usually boares me to death, they have their moments. (Like during Saturday Night's Main Event a few months ago. The stuff with JBL and Stone Cold was GOLD)</p>
<p>mozilla, that's exactly what i said above ya!</p>
<p>It's very true though. In today's society EVERYONE is prejudice (you said racist, but that is specific to race). Actually, it's more than just prejudice, but we disrespect, degrade, and hate people who are different. </p>
<p>Honestly, neither liberals nor conservatives are better than the other. However, I feel the liberals who are prejudice are worse than the conservatives who are the same. At least the conservatives aren't trying to be accepting, so it's not as bad when they are prejudice and such. Yet, for a liberal to stereotype people and be prejudice it is against what they support. </p>
<p>I don't think either is good, but liberals are a bit more hypocritical in that sense. However, conservatives can be hypocritical as well.</p>
<p>But... I'm not getting into any of this. I don't favor either side (as I said, I'm very moderate, I lean either way depending on the issue) and will leave it that way. They are both equally sickening to me and I personally feel it needs to stop. I don't think it will anytime soon though, oh well.</p>
<p>This reminds me:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28559%5B/url%5D">http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28559</a></p>
<p>Sorry. Yeah, I meant Prejudice. Stupid English Language. Nope. Sometimes, Conservatives have some pretty nasty stereotypes as well. And the ones that are really to the right? Trust me. They can be pretty racist at times. (this time I meant it) But the ones that aren't into the hardcore right do tend to be more openminded than a liberal who is not in the hardcore left.</p>
<p>dwincho, *** was the point in showing that article? To spur more hate? Antagonize? What, really?</p>
<p>Only the truth is funny...</p>
<p>Au contraire, I thought the article was hilarious. </p>
<p>Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused. - Old Chinese proverb</p>
<p>tsk, tsk, tsk. What truth? That the artiche was written in April 12, 2000?
That "... 15,000 drunk, unemployed tobacco pickers in attendance."? Really, dwincho. You need to get a better life than to start up in a forums about Colleges in 12:25 in the morning. (I should be off to bed, but I just can't help being awake watching this)</p>
<p>dwicho, you are very ignorant. Not for posting the article, that was satire. But for your comment afterwards.</p>
<p>Dude, you know as well as me that the article brilliantly satirizes Southern culture. Is it really too cruel to kick them while they're down?</p>
<p>You're hopeless.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, when can I start actually quoting people on these forums?</p>
<p>Not as hopeless as the South, apparently (hehehehe).</p>
<p>Noooo, don't misinterpret my statement.
YOU, dwincho (W T F?) are hopeless.</p>
<p>I was born and raised in the south where our schools did not desegregate until 13 years after the Brown vs. The Board of Education decision. When I was younger, I certainly did experience the stereotypical southern brand of racism, though it did begin to lessen significantly over time.</p>
<p>I had always bought the propaganda that "The North" was a great bastion of freedom and liberal thinking. So I was totally unprepared for the level of racism I encountered at a small liberal arts college in Upstate New York, as well as that in the community which surrounded it . It wasn't any less racist than the south (in lots of ways, it was more so), but it was a far more "nuanced" form, and far more insidious by virtue of its subtlety. Nobody used the "N" word---no they were much too sly for that---but you didn't have to be a Rocket scientist to figure out that that's exactly how they viewed you. The "liberal" form of racism was actually the most surprising, and in ways, the most hurtful.</p>
<p>I came home with a greater appreciation for many aspects of The South (at least my little corner of it). In general, I believe people (both black and white) ARE more hospitible, more friendly here. It has been my experience, that even "prejudiced" white men would stop and help out a stranded black motorist (No, I'm not talking about Klan members---LOL!). It was just a matter of common decency, a "southern thing". In The North, I found that people tended to be much more reserved, much more stand-offish toward strangers and people they didn't know intimately, which often made me feel rather alone and even strangely vulnerable. Need help and you might well be on your own!</p>
<p>But even concerning the above mentioned places, I'm still ONLY relating my OWN personal experiences and point of view. "Your milage may vary" when it comes to your own experiences in the virtually infinite number of places it's available to live in the U.S. So generalizations are often useless.</p>
<p>I am once again residing in the same part of Virginia in which I grew up, but it is changed tremendously. An area which was once extremely racially segregated (via enforcement of law) now boasts an incredible amount of racial and religious diversity. I'm the black half of a bi-racial marriage (22yrs), and our children are by no means unusual in this part of Virginia. Mixed race people of every sort are all over the place here, and so common that people hardly blink when they see examples of such. Because they are not that unusual, my kids have never been harrassed or made to feel like social freaks at school (at least not because of their racial makeup). Our neighborhood is very racially mixed, and the neighborhood kids get along great. This is the same south that use to reverence Jim Crow like a "Founding Father". This is the same state from which the Supreme Court misegination case, "Loving vs. The State of Virginia" origniated. But not even The South stays static. It would well serve people on this forum to remember that. </p>
<p>In my opinion, The North DOES NOT hold a moral high-ground over The South. The high-ground varies by locality, and even sometimes, neighborhood, whether North or South. And "individual milage" varies by an even greater degree.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I came home with a greater appreciation for many aspects of The South (at least my little corner of it). In general, I believe people (both black and white) ARE more hospitible, more friendly. It has been my experience, that even "prejudiced" white men would stop and help out a stranded black motorist (No, I'm not talking about Klan members---LOL!). It was just a matter of common decency, a "southern thing". In The North, I found that people tended to be much more reserved, much more stand-offish toward strangers and people they didn't know intimately, which often made me feel rather alone and even strangely vulnerable. Need help and you might well be on your own!<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I must respectfully disagree. The above, while true indeed, has nothing to do with racial relations in the North. The standoffishness both stems from and is directed towards all, regardless of race.</p>
<p>Yep. I've had my share of prejeduce in NY, and I still do. (Though in a diffrent way) Sometimes when I go on the Subway, or on the bus going home, I get a bunch of comments such as "Hey, Jew boy. Shine my shoes", or "Jesus loves you", or " I'm Hitler's Grandson". (Most are either from a white teenager my age or a black in his 20's. It's always the same type of people.) Lately, there's much less of that, but I do get plenty of looks, shoves, and even snarls occasionally. Whatever. People love using me as a target of anger, whether it's in school (because I'm more "religious" not from the same country, and so on), or on the bus. I'm used to it by now. Maybe that's why I want to go out-of state.</p>
<p>Context is everything Dwincho. If you'll go back and reread what I wrote, I believe you'll understand that I meant the friendliness of "people in general, both black and white" when comparing The North and The South. That's what I meant when saying that I came back home with a greater appreciation of The South. Even the "prejudiced" southern white man deplayed a certain amount of "common decendy" at times, a certain level of that "southern hospitality" toward his black counterpart. Northern people of any strip (unless they were recent transplants from The South---LOL) tended to be much less "friendly", much less hospitable. That's all I was saying. Hope that clears things up. And again, I'm only expressing my personal experiences---my personal views:).</p>
<p>Well since Washington and Lee has produced 30 Governors,27 Senators,umpteen congressman and is number two in fortune 500 CEOS,which school will actually give you the clout to make changes in Society?</p>