WizardMarks, Central
Chris Johnson wrote:
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Picky, picky, picky and parochial too. It's past time for Minnesotans face the fact that people coming here from all points are going to be bringing different cultural norms. We knew when we hired Peebles that she was from the East Coast. If she is described as "brash, unnerving and too abrupt" then maybe we should observe and question why we are such delicate flowers that no one can talk to us except in a quiet, self-effacing way, being sure to dance around the issue and hem and haw for a while. Neither are we flower fairies who need to be coaxed out from under the foliage with honeyed words. All those critics are saying is that Peebles is not a Minnesotan. Well, duh.
I get really tired of hearing this excuse used for people's inability to get along with the people they need to get along with. It's claptrap.
I was born on the East Coast, and I came of age on the East Coast. I went to college with a bunch of folks from the East Coast, in a pair of laid-back, easy-going western colleges.
And not once did I encounter a tendency for East Coast people to be "brash, unnerving and too abrupt." If that's how Peebles is behaving, it's her own personality traits, and has next to nothing to do with her being from the East Coast.
I've lived all over this country, and people are more alike than they are different. There are regionalisms, no doubt. But rudeness, arrogance, inflexibility and so forth are their own animals -- they are not regionalisms and there are no regions with which I'm familiar in which any of those traits are the norm or acceptable.
Been there, done that in Delaware, Maryland, Alabama, California, Utah, Colorado, Wisconsin and Minnesota -- and visited most other states on the way.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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