You either missed or ignored the insinuation, I see. The matter was not one of claiming that your perceptions and prejudcides are racially motivated. I was trying to show you (since racial bias still seems so evident here in the US) that there is more than one form of prejudice, and that your initial claims are based on a different form of prejudice, but no less wrong for it. There is a lot of mainstream stereotyping about people from the south. Usually, we try to just ignore it, or laugh about it. But then it breeds people who honestly believe that they are inherently better, simply based on where you were raised.Poseidon wrote:
lol, we've got plenty of black people here. Hell, my town alone is diverse as hell. Whites are only barely the majority.imortal wrote:
You know, if you subsituted "white" for north, and "black" for south, you could use the exact same arguments almost word for word, but you would have 50 people calling to ban you, you know?
Mostly because of the University.
http://www.sunysb.edu/
(which also is one of the best medical schools in the country. )
You want to wade into the education argument, you are welcome to it. Unfortunately, there is a lot more to it than the smiplistic manner you try to paint it in. In the north, there is a much higher population density than in the south. This has a lot to due with the fact that, historically, the industries of the north were mining and manufacturing, requiring a lot of manpower, but not much land. In the south, the industries were farming and cattle, which require a lot of land, but not nearly as many people. So, the areas of the north developed very fine cities, as well as the ammenities that went along with it, while, here in the south, a less hectic approach was just fine. One or two good schools were sufficient for the poplulation, while you needed many times that in the north.
In the modern era, lots of things have changed. People are less fixed geographically. They can move around. There is less call for the tradtional areas of the south, cattle and agriculture. This leaves expansion into other areas, which is happening. Up north, it is more business as usual. Universities up north are better, by and large, through name only. The name of a university that has been there for a long time, and who draws in good professors and good students mainly through name and reputation alone (after all, all the best people come from Havard in the movies, right?), that may or may not have any basis in real life. Universities have much less history in the south, since the re-shuffling of industry has a lot of schools with a more limited history.
Oh, time out for a joke. Do you know what you call a person who graduates last in their class at medical school? Doctor.
On that, I have decided I am through with you. You want to feel superior to people in the south? Fine. Congratulations. We are nicer, at least. Enjoy your winters and having all of those schools you will never go to. I will finish nursing school down here and work down here, making slightly less income, but living in an area with a much lower cost of living, and enjoy the lower population densities.
