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karmasoup

Culture Shock

Feb 24, 2010 16:51

Failure To Communicate

They say you can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl. To a large degree, this may be true. While there are many parts of the South I have been happy to leave behind, there are certain elements that will always remain with me, despite the fact that I have now spent more than half my ( Read more... )

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karmasoup February 25 2010, 06:19:34 UTC

Aheh... can't figure out how to have it all, can you? Minnesota has about 2-3 days in the end of August where the temperature reaches 95° (and on rare occasions up to 106°)... I'm always keenly aware of those, because they're the only days of the year I actually sweat. In Florida, it was a rather common occurrence, but, wouldn't you know it took moving up here to turn my pores stoic. About that, I can't complain, though.

alephz February 25 2010, 00:09:35 UTC

So entirely true. Minnesota does some STUFF to a body. And when they finally DO get angry, its this horrific sort of inward-turning... thing.

Brrr.

karmasoup February 25 2010, 06:20:35 UTC

I know, scary, right?

lawchicky February 25 2010, 01:25:00 UTC

Oh wow, I can certainly relate to this post! I'm a native NYer who spent a year at college in the twin cities. I loved Minneapolis, but yeah, that whole passive aggressive thing was GRATING, and so very different from what I was used to!

superhappytime February 25 2010, 02:44:54 UTC

I have to disagree...Florida is deep south, aside from Miami and Tampa...and maybe Orlando...anything north or I-10 or near the Everglades is like a redneck mecca.

karmasoup February 25 2010, 06:24:25 UTC

So... you're telling me in my journal that I'm a liar and a redneck when talking about the home I grew up in for the first half of my life?

superhappytime February 25 2010, 12:23:56 UTC

um...no? but way to take it that way.

also, i spent 2/3 of my life in the region...

karmasoup February 26 2010, 01:37:50 UTC

I don't think it was a matter of "taking it that way." You told me that my assessment of the exact part of the state I grew up in, where I went to school, and church, and made friends and connections, and have family, is wrong, and that in fact that region, which included myself, and all those I've mentioned, is in fact entirely populated with rednecks.

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shadowwolf13 February 25 2010, 03:00:42 UTC

Makes me wonder if Lynn's ex ever spent much time up there because she is the most passive aggressive twit I've ever met.

Very good entry.

karmasoup February 25 2010, 06:36:04 UTC

There once was a time not so long ago in our history when man was intelligent, and decent, above pettiness. But every so often, a bad seed was born into the community of man. The good, smart, kind people, not knowing what to do with such inbred cretins, banished them to a place called the Isle of Schiff. This worked for many generations, allowing mankind to go on about his business as usual, undisturbed by those who would bring ignorance, laziness, greed, corruption and discord into his harmonious community. But, then, man continued to multiply in number, and to grow and expand beyond the known borders. Eventually, they learned to charter vessels, and to explore strange new worlds... to seek out new life, and new civilizations... to boldly go where none have gone before. In their eagerness of looking toward the future, and to colonize, they forgot about the Isle of Schiff. But settlers came upon it, and merchants, and travelers, and inevitably, they took mates from among those who'd made a home of that land. Soon, their seed ( ... )