Comments on: Links and Thoughts http://coffeehousepoetry.net/2007/09/27/links-and-thoughts/ WARNING: Cranky, sarcastic, foul-mouthed, liberal atheist on premises. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:54:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ja http://coffeehousepoetry.net/2007/09/27/links-and-thoughts/#comment-30815 ja Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:07:19 +0000 http://coffeehousepoetry.net/2007/09/27/links-and-thoughts/#comment-30815 re: the restuarant comment. Despite the fact that we live in a pluralistic society, we still tend to self segregate. Left to themselves, people tend to socialize with others like themselves,in their peer group or neighborhood. This means that despite all changes which have occured in the last 40 years--many people still have no idea what the day to day life of someone outside their circle might be like. This applies to religion and social class as well as race. Americans are incredibly provincial, overall. How many times, Java, at the restaurant has someone expressed astonishment at your education? People are clue less in the real sense of the word--they have no clue what other peoples lives might be like--they lack the experience and the imagination to place themselves into someone elses world. This tv personality just expressed a common phenomenon--tho you'd think he'd have perhaps been a bit more erudite/eloquent in expressing the idea. re: the restuarant comment. Despite the fact that we live in a pluralistic society, we still tend to self segregate. Left to themselves, people tend to socialize with others like themselves,in their peer group or neighborhood.

This means that despite all changes which have occured in the last 40 years–many people still have no idea what the day to day life of someone outside their circle might be like. This applies to religion and social class as well as race.
Americans are incredibly provincial, overall.

How many times, Java, at the restaurant has someone expressed astonishment at your education? People are clue less in the real sense of the word–they have no clue what other peoples lives might be like–they lack the experience and the imagination to place themselves into someone elses world.

This tv personality just expressed a common phenomenon–tho you’d think he’d have perhaps been a bit more erudite/eloquent in expressing the idea.

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