Really?
Overgeneralizing? By people all over? Really!
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Phoebe Vet
People move freely among the different states with few problems, why do we have this absurd paranoia about people moving between countries?
What is the origin of our insane urge to choose up sides? Black against white, management against labor, liberal against conservative, etc. We compete instead of co-operate.
Only a small part of the rules for social interaction within a community are written down and enforced as laws. Most of these rules are customs, conventions, and accepted ways of doing things. They are established, learned, and enforced by growing up in a community and by a miriad of social interactions, some spoken others not, that have the effect of establishing norms of social conformity.
People move freely among the different states with few problems? I guess, but there are some problems. Visitors from Illinois have a reputation of lording it over the native Wisconsinites, and there is a common expression for such visitors that I won’t repeat here. As a consequence, when people ask me where I am from, I say, “Wisconsin, far southern Wisconsin” although my grating nasal accent probably gives me away as having spent my language formation years in Park Ridge. My friends and neighbors and coworkers may be gracious enough not to clue me in on how demanding and assertive I can be. After living in Wisconsin for the last 34 years, and when I recently joined a fruit-growing club in the greater Chicago area and drove down the Tollway to attend some meetings, I was thinking, "What’s the deal with these people, they certainly have some strong opinions
Upstate NY Amtrak Train Sets still need to be serviced and cleaned. As of now the best facility is up the road near Niagara University.