tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852423.post4875732047021542088..comments2023-11-05T07:13:31.277-05:00Comments on WHAT ARE MEN THINKING?: Culture ClashChuck and Garlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18277194909409065185noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852423.post-51207730763767637222007-10-15T12:29:00.000-04:002007-10-15T12:29:00.000-04:00TVDinner-Well said. If there was one thing that I ...TVDinner-<BR/><BR/>Well said. If there was one thing that I could wish for for the majority of Americans, it would be for them to travel outside of this country.<BR/><BR/>This would hopefully allow people to develop more open minds about how life is lived all over the world, and give yahoos who say, "Amurrika is the greatest country in the world," a chance to see whether they're right.<BR/><BR/>I think, as people of African descent, we should try to come to a greater accommodation with African people. But what do I expect, when we can't get it together ourselves? Oh, well.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment.<BR/><BR/>-ChuckChuck and Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18277194909409065185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852423.post-11456496613823403062007-10-03T03:43:00.000-04:002007-10-03T03:43:00.000-04:00Guys, I think your comments are absolutely right o...Guys, I think your comments are absolutely right on. I just wanted to beat the drum a bit more about cultural differences. I honestly had no idea how profoundly we are molded by the culture in which we grow up until I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Central America. I had a unique opportunity to live among people who'd been raised in a very different culture, and I never felt more alone than when I was surrounded by people who had very different values and perspectives than mine, one of those values being that my humanity was somehow obviated by being a woman. In other words, I wasn't as valuable as a man, and this message manifests itself in a thousand ways and interfered with all of my personal relationships to one extent or another.<BR/><BR/>But nevermind that. The point - assuming I have one - is that the idea that you can set aside cultural differences "because we all have hearts that beat the same way" is a myth. African Americans and Africans are raised in vastly different cultures, and even if he didn't have weird ideas about her hair, either he would have to be mighty acculturated to this country and its norms, or she would have to do some serious bending of her own personality to make it work.<BR/><BR/>This is way more detail than the situation merits, and as you guys said, he didn't ring her bell, so move on regardless of the specifics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com