Well said: spot-on. John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will say but one thing one this. For context, I am an American who > lived in London for 5 years. > > I think it is a mistake, and quite unfair, to apply a behavioural > stereotype to everyone of a particular Nation. All the British are not > one way, and all the Americans are not another way. There is tremendous > diversity of behavior and attitudes across both populations. Certainly, > different cultures have different modes of socially acceptable behavior > - and on average (if you will), communication styles in England (not > necessarily applying to Scotland, Wales or Ireland) tend to be more > indirect (this is well documented in cultural/sociological research). > That said, the offending statement had nothing to do with that. (it was > quite opposite from, really). Being familiar with both cultures, I find > nothing about it as being commonly acceptable behaviour in either > culture. It was rude and insulting, and obviously burst out from some > bottled-up, mounting frustration. It was entirely a personal reaction > (over-reaction, really) of the poster, and one that seemed to come of of > nowhere with no recent context (at least to me). It had nothing to do > with being British -- certainly nothing to do with any notion of > National elitism, and the reaction had nothing to do with being > American. I think we are much to quick to assign negative behaviours > that we experience as being characteristic or a particular nationality > or ethnicity. Rather than trying to couch this in National or cultural > terms, we should be counseling the offending poster in anger management. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
