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Originally Posted by mayfair
I agree you can't sterotype a whole state. There is a general attitude to a place, though- a culture. I experienced Iowa and Wisconsin as pretty similar in friendliness.
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Point taken, but since when did culture dictate how friendly someone was, or even right and wrong? Unless you do something like betray someone's trust, lie, verbally insult or physically attack or threaten somebody, etc., stuff that is OBVIOUSLY unfriendly, what comes across as friendly to one person can easily come across as offensive or taboo to another. There is undebatable rudeness, and then there is debatable rudeness. Where culture is concerned, more often than not the "rude attitude" someone could interpret could just as easily be friendly to another. That is debatable rudeness, in fact maybe so debatable that after a point it becomes undebatable, a paradox
Still, saying Iowans are friendly than Wisconsiners is a gray statement. That's just like saying all blondes are dumb. The only thing stereotypes IMO have ever done is either cause harm or direct us away from the truth.