I'm normal- you're weird

anyone who has to check a site for anything other than making money while doing chores or driving is WEIRD.

If anyone ever accuses me of being normal, I will know that I must be sick!

chickaree wrote: Very interesting article Neptune. thank you. I didn't have to sign up to read it. I particularly liked this bit: " Many westerners have a “binary conflict” view of life, like right or wrong, liberal versus conservative, and so on and so forth, "

These are many of the same points I was attemting to make (albeit poorly apparently) in the face veil thread.

I would certainly not limit that perception to westerners based on experience. I'd also hate to be limited to "binary conflict" since I expect my conflicts encompasses a lot more than two. The key word in the article is assumption and once again the way the word is spelled lives up to its name. Things never work out right when one ass-u-me-s.

And chickaree, I do not think the arguments present on the face veil thread simply fit into the concept of "binary conflict"

I am a naturalized American, but have lived and experienced non-western cultures in places like Vietnam, Saudi and Abu Dhabi. Work takes me around the globe and mostly I find foreign cultures interesting.

Coming to understand how little wisdom one has is the beginning of wisdom.

The article points that out nicely, I think.

AspenValley wrote: Coming to understand how little wisdom one has is the beginning of wisdom.

The article points that out nicely, I think.

I think with wisdom comes tolerance and recognition there is more than one way to live life. Every culture has something from which one can learn and grow as a human being.

I have always found it fascinating although I usually do not come at it as accepting of other cultures behavior, that has been a given for me.

Rather it is more interesting to think about our own culture and what makes sense and what is just the result of our own inculturation(?).

Burying people really, what would the Viking have thought?

Reminds me of "All Yankees Are Liars" by Eric M Knight.

Photo-fish wrote: I didn't read the article. I don't have to because I already know that I AM weird. tongue: And don't try to tell me that I am not.

This exactly. I embrace the weird.

Martin, remember to update the words in the song. "Beer is great, God is good, and liberals are lazy."

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