Take away the heat and mosquitoes, and many places in the South would be one of the finest places to live in. I also like the garrulous friendliness in some regions.
Or the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Latino immigrants in the West. But the ugliness of all that still doesn’t equal black slavery. Nothing does, in the US.
So much for that northern politness, they will shoot you down on the street in any number of Northern cities. Any large town or rural backwater has its own set of idiosycraties. Remember we are all one UNITED States of America. When we fought the Revolutionary War we were all rebellious. The civil war was 150 years ago. Plenty of time for old animosities to be done with. America has to get the racism issue, and violence against women and gun issues righted, then we can move foward. Social issues are at the top of my worry list. I feel we may be stymied until we clear up the issue in the White House.
that was a sort of literary joke, sorry.
It’s usually silly to compare suffering in this manner, but I’ll do it anyway - IMO the treatment of Native Americans rivals slavery in monstrosity.
Yeah, the stuff memorialized outside the courthouse is pretty shitty. Fortunately that’s not where most Southerners spend their time thinking about Southern culture.
That, I’m afraid, is a pretty superficial understanding of a cultural difference. Southerners tend toward an indirect communication style more similar to an Arabic or Japanese approach, contrasted to something like a Northern US/Israeli/French approach, which is more direct. It has nothing to do with which culture prefers treating people well, so any talk about politeness on either side is a bit of a canard.
But what was your point?
Natives and Europeans killed each other, the latter just had more technology. Aside from a few things like Nat Turner, the slaves always got the short stick.
The North and France have nothing on Israel as far as directness goes, though. Nobody in Mass would avoid euphemism if they could.
Indigenous peoples were absolutely put upon by Europeans with muskets and horses an armor. And numbers. Natives had no chance when the tide turned in favor of the White man. But that is another century. We are talking about differences in the north and south of the same nation, now, in 2017. We can still fix this, it will take work.
It’s not about what Europeans did to Native Americans, it’s about what the nation of the USA did - forced relocation, massacres, ethnic cleansing, etc.
But it’s a sidetrack, and not really part of the topic of the thread.
well, I never spent much time in that part of the south, so, can’t say much about the folks there. I’d encourage you to try again, maybe a different area. The South isn’t any more a monolithic region or subculture than the north or west. Lots of variation from area to area even within states, to say nothing of differences between each state.