In Message Thu, 20 Jan 1994 10:16:04 EST, Mark Bunster <[log in to unmask]> writes: Mark I have to confirm your midwest minority statement. My roomate at school, a twenty year old midwesterner, confirmed to me that I was the first Jewish person he had ever met. That totally floored me, but there are people out here who have these assumptions about me because I am jewish. I apologize for getting people started on the South. I think all parts of the countries have their problem areas, but they, maybe, hide them better. Where I grew up, outside Philadelphia, wasn't all that much better, when I come to think of it. >I think also more often in the south one finds a pattern of ill will through >confrontation as opposed to ill will through ignorance. Some Midwestern >cities are still pretty provincial in their racial attitudes--they're so >infrequently in contact with minorities that they (minorities) are seen as >having the same base characteristics as those from common media portrayals of >them. So, the ill will comes from fear and misunderstanding. >In the south, many large cities are populated by more black and hispanic >citizens than white citizens. Like it or not, (and there are certainly those who >do not), whites have no choice but to exist in something more approximating >attempted harmony. > > > > >-- >Mark Bunster |Exchange conversation if you dare-- >Survey Research Lab--VCU |Share an empty thought or a laugh. >Richmond, VA 23220 | >[log in to unmask] | >(804) 367-8813/353-1731 | -edFROM