[lbo-talk] Insularity ( Was pale male : question to newyorkers...)

[ravi]

John Thornton wrote:
>>>No, snobbish and arrogant. I won't deny that.
>>
>>Thinking there's nowhere worth being outside of one's city strikes me as an
>>insular arrogance.
> 
> I think insular is a pretty good description of many NYer's. Obviously not 
> all or even most but more than anywhere else I've spent time. NYer's tend 
> to think that no place on earth is a good as NY which is just an annoying 
> opinion. When they think they there is no need to find out much about the 
> rest of the world...
> 

my own anecdotal experiences are quite the opposite. new yorkers are
more open, tolerant and curious (w.r.t my being from a significantly
different culture) than people i have met in the midwest, northeast
(where i lived for three years) or the south. people in the midwest or
south (and even new england) have been more polite (when they are not
racist ;-)) but i often got the feeling that the politeness did not
extend to the natural sense of being treated an equal (which i get in NYC).

perhaps it helps that i agree that no place on earth is better than NYC
;-) (though there are places as good: london, various parts of utah...)

	--ravi

p.s: i am mostly talking about manhattan when i say NYC (only because
that's where i have spent the most time).