Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006, guy keren wrote about "Re: OSDC is not interesting?":my original comment was reffered to nadav, not to you - about thinking like a cheap israeli "oh, i payed for a 3 days conference, so if i only come to 2 days, i get screwed" - and i don't think nadav is a cheap israeli, nor is he a broke student or someone having hard time "finishing the month" - he merely got caught in a israeli concept due to bad israeli education - i know how hard it is to take this out of your system, because i had the same israeli education too when i was young ("ma, ani fraier? shilamti avur haglida, az afilu im hi mag'la ani ochal ota ad hasof, rak kedei lo lizrok kesef lapach") ;)Guy, if anybody not Israeli would have said what you just said and repeated (so it is obviously not a slip of the pen, but something you really believe), his head would have been chewed off by everybody hearing this. It doesn't sound any more pleasant when coming from you...
Unpleasant is only one part of it. Making that Israeli-bashing claim is just plain stupid. Many of the things that some of just seem to KNOW is the "typical Israeli" thing to do, are atributed in many parts of Europe to the "typical Italian". In the US it's attributed to yet another group. In the US there are both ethnic and regional stereotypes and I think this particular collection of stereotypes is a regional one in the US.
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