No, you're just a bunch of redneckssnowflakes who want to surround themselves with people who look, think, and talk the way they do. The Promenade on DS9 probably terrified you.
Not really the Promenade set was the rebuilt set from Bonanza (seriously). Everyone wants people around the that look, think and talk the way they do. Most simply will not admit it.
I wasn't talking about the sound stage (seriously), but about the different species populating it. I think you knew that and you're just being obtuse. I guess that must be why I've lived my entire life in large metropolitan areas where there are so many different kinds of people, languages spoken, cultural opportunities, music, art, conversation, intriguing characters...and food. Lord, the food. You hate the world as it really is. You'd rather, as Khan said in "Space Seed", "remold it to my liking." And we know how well that turned out.
I'm genuinely surprised about New Mexico and Albuquerque. I've been down there for work multiple times over the past five or six years and really like the city and the state. I haven't had any negative experiences, but in driving around ABQ I have come across some pretty dodgy neighbourhoods.
Does TrekBBS count as an American shithole, or is it still registered in Sweden or wherever Christian is from?
Visiting here is fine, most of the people here are great, but our criminal element pretty much has a free pass.
I couldn't disagree more. Once of the unexpected gifts of my inadvertent move into immigration law was learning about other peoples and cultures. It's what has made my many travels around the world so much better. Seeking out the locals and the culture. No hiding away in a resort bubble like you did during you one and only trip outside the US. You know, you're such a racial and nationalistic snob. You have virtually no experience of other countries and cultures and yet you pass judgment. There are areas in which some cultures outside of America and, indeed, outside of the west, are beyond us. But you wouldn't want to have a conversation about that because it means you'll have to accept the world as multifaceted and not the black and white "them and us" world view you expect.
Although you must have missed the recent thread where Dayton literally did quote the Ministry of Truth as a description of his educational philosophy...
My only complaint from my visit to Egypt was that that place is absolutely overrun with North Africans.
No, it would be objectively bad if everyone was the same. Where would the innovation come from? What about the people needed to do different types of jobs?
Your own words make my point. "unexpected" and "inadvertent". You did not seek out exposure to other cultures and peoples. It was just an side effect of your move in to immigration law. Just as garamet loves to tout living in a multi cultural major metropolitan area as though she sought it out. Instead, that is largely because her job as a writer has taken her there
I never said everyone should be the same. I said people prefer to associate with people similar to themselves.
You’re very stupid man. Dealing for foreigners as clients didn’t force me to learn about other cultures. I did it as a choice...and through that choice I learned a great many things. A buffoon who can’t even hold down a job long enough to afford to have the experiences I have had abroad, and whose total internal experience is as a westerner’s resort in Mexico, is in no position to tell me what I have and have not learned.
No, you said that you (and everyone) want people "around" that are the same. That means that other people are not around.
