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Old 01-05-2008, 07:02 AM
 
Location: Europe
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The thing you do is that you put all wisconsiners to the same bag. And that s very stupid. I think you cannot say who is friendly and who is not. Especially if you say, that s because of Germans there. You know, all over the world there are friendly people and unfriendly people.

In Europe, Usa, Asia, Australia.....everywhere.... I met very rude people in Germany, but also there were some very friendly ones. Same in Usa.... please do not act like a skimmer.
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Old 01-05-2008, 12:47 PM
 
Location: St. Louis, MO
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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.
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.
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