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To: GourmetDan
It gets back to my comments about how your culture taught you to value the opinions of others over your own. You are simply incapable of valuing your own opinion over that of others and acting upon that fact.

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How did you determine the culture of the other poster?

Do you know his family, his neighborhood, his education?

551 posted on 11/21/2006 12:50:26 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
"How did you determine the culture of the other poster?"

He made it a point to say that he was a black male, which is totally irrelevant to the point unless he was referencing the black culture.

He then proceeded to provide an example where, if someone flipped him off, he got 'ticked off' and couldn't imagine that everyone wasn't that way. I merely explained that you can't let the actions of others generate these knee-jerk responses. He simply couldn't understand that allowing the actions of others to determine his knee-jerk response was because he values the opinions of others over his own.

Someone flips me off, I don't care. Their opinion is completely irrelevant to me and certainly no reason for me to respond in some knee-jerk fashion. But that is because I come from a different culture. He wasn't able to understand that.

Now I suppose that he might have related his black skin color without realizing that it was irrelevant to the discussion if he wasn't referencing the black culture, but the balance of his responses support the original interpretation.

It doesn't matter what color you are, if you get 'ticked off' because someone flips you off, you value that person's opinion more than your own. That seems to be a fairly obvious conclusion.

Perhaps you are confused because this paradigm, while part of the black culture, is not limited to the black culture. I'll be that's what the problem is.

565 posted on 11/21/2006 1:31:07 PM PST by GourmetDan
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