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I am from the North and attend college in Alabama. I love everything about the south and want to permanently move to Charleston, SC when I graduate. I love the weather, southern hospitality, morals, slower pace of life, culture, etc. I am a conservative Republican and Christian. I want to embrace the southern culture and become apart of it, not make the south like the north. I am scared that people will still not like me because I am from the north and will just consider me another Yankee. Do any Southerners, especially those from the Charleston area, have an inputs? Thank you!
It's not that I want to fit in with the northerners and divide myself, I want to become friends with the Southerners and experience their way of life that I find so interesting.
I am scared that people will still not like me because I am from the north and will just consider me another Yankee.
People will not dislike you because of where you're from. You'll be liked as long as you're a likeable person. That depends on you personally...not you geographically.
With that said...you will indeed be considered just another Yankee. That is a stigma you'll carry the rest of your life. There is no way around it. You are a Yankee, after all.
But again, that in itself doesn't mean you won't be liked.
I just find it so comical that people really care that much about where someone is born. Grown adults being closed minded and judging other people instead of taking the time to know them is truly sad and absurd.
I just find it so comical that people really care that much about where someone is born. Grown adults being closed minded and judging other people instead of taking the time to know them is truly sad and absurd.
I find it comical that you don't get the humor in the statement I made.
Either way...no one cares where you were born...you will not be treated different. You will still be a Yankee...nothing more, nothing less. It isn't derogatory.
When I came here I moved from a small island along the coast waaaayyyyyy up north in North Carolina. If you were not born in the local community you were known as a "dingbatter". You could get upset with that fact or understand that no harm was intended and just live with it. A little old lady (72) that worked for me had lived on the island for more than 40 years...the locals still called her a dingbatter.
Wait a minute -- nobody is that concerned...you were the one that asked us if you would be liked or not because you are from someplace else....we just answered you. If folks don't like you it will have nothing to do with where you are from. It isn't n issue here -- it seemed to be an issue for you in your original post. We are here to assure you -- it is not an issue unless you make it an issue.
Most people I've met here weren't born here. I have friends from Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, NC, Utah, etc.
If you're a nice, cool, person, people will like you; it's not so much about where you're from. Just don't let it bother ya too much, people down here are pretty chill for the most part .
You know OP,that there are Southerners
here that are not conservative Christians.Shocker huh?
Will you be nice to them? Or not because
they don't fit your Scarlett O'Hara "Southern Culture" fantasy?
My advice is to approach everyone inclusively
and stop dividing people into fantasyland "cultures", where ever
you live.
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