I'm tired of the lie that Midwesterners are straight-taahkin', haanest-dealin', friendly blond goyim. Midwesterners are mean!
anarqueso got me thinking about this with her post about community. Readers, I am rarely depressed. I mean, I get "depressed", like when it's gray outside and I'm bored and broke, and I have a hunger headache and I see a poster for
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I will admit, I like Ohio on the whole- the people are generally much friendlier than anyone I met in Boston or New York City, and they are more willing to help you if you are down and out. Although I'm sure you will be able to adapt to the harsh reality that is "the Midwest", a lot of people will come here from the coasts and of course find fault with it, and they of course are going to be looked at with "the evil eye of the Midwest."
But then again, I probably got the same thing when I lived on the east coast.
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Could it just be because the students are lazy asses who didn't read the assignment, and they were just being honest? I had this same experience in my east coast schooling... but then again, most people at BU had been out partying the night before, so they perhaps had a legit reason not to answer. But there is always one know it all in class who wants to show off- I'm surprised your class didn't have one!
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I just made a post on "The Midwest" and I will admit, I will never ever live in "The South" because I know that I would have experiences on an everyday basis that you had in the bank. And with Tammy as my significant other??! Yikes!
I know there are a lot of times that living here in North Caucasian that I am seen as "the exotic one", and I guess I'm OK with that... as long as they aren't burning crosses on my lawn!
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And of course, I guess I wouldn't consider the ATL the "tradtional South", as I wouldn't consider Miami the traditional South. But even with that being said, I don't think that Georgia/Alabama/the Carolinas/Tennessee/and all the other Southern places are off my travel list!
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