tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post4214720221991896219..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: Common GroundRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-11109681351081189572010-02-06T19:07:22.432-08:002010-02-06T19:07:22.432-08:00Dear Rory,
I love this post. One thing I have lear...Dear Rory,<br />I love this post. One thing I have learned, if you have prepared, you don't have to cringe when you say you don't know. <br /><br />If you have to approach it as a person who has made no effort, you're screwed, much like when teacher asked where was yuh homework.<br /><br />Very funny,<br />Ann T.Ann T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11128699035211561119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-41114203267277965312010-02-03T07:17:33.994-08:002010-02-03T07:17:33.994-08:00The interesting one I've found is the weird op...The interesting one I've found is the weird opposite of what you talk about where you ask people "Don't you guys XXXYYY here?" based on something you learned, and everyone looks at you like you smell like hamburger and need to go home. <br /><br />Then after years of living in the culture, you realize what the person teaching you this was actually talking about, that people in this culture actually DO do those things, and it's such a part of the culture that it's completely unidentifiable to the individual.<br /><br />An example would be that Americans value tools over labor. If you said that outright to an American, he'd look at you like you had just said that he likes to eat moon rocks for dinner. However, the fact is that modern technological culture is such that any job that can only be accomplished with manual labor is considered beneath the vast majority of people, hence the demand for Non-US labor cleaning toilets and working assembly lines. When you phrase it that way, people do actually agree that they would rather have something that saves them effort than work harder at a job.Quint Oga-Baldwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02160229610616607473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-43784807581008636622010-02-03T06:33:47.239-08:002010-02-03T06:33:47.239-08:00Sorry for the fact that this isn't related to ...Sorry for the fact that this isn't related to your post, but I couldn't find a way to email you.<br /><br />I also couldn't find your original post (at work, it takes too much time to search) dealing with criminals who write books/articles that whitewash their past actions, but I thought of that post when I read this story:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246886/Pictured-Three-cheetahs-spare-tiny-antelopes-life--play-instead.html" rel="nofollow">cheetahs play with an antelope</a>Vironoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-61422170668134074562010-02-02T17:31:19.759-08:002010-02-02T17:31:19.759-08:00Insightful post. A good one to reflect on. :)Insightful post. A good one to reflect on. :)Nardahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16536913063519327736noreply@blogger.com