A young friend of mine who lives in the US has just returned to Kathmandu for her wedding. She hasn’t been home since the earthquake. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say about the changes there. Can you tell if your city has moved south? I do know that her father was very involved in the relief and rebuilding efforts.
“Can you tell if your city has moved south?”
Accent, racism, interest in NASCAR.
Has Mt. Everest dropped an inch? My first question goes to whether we can measure it to that level of accuracy?
I’ve always seen the altitude of Everest expressed in whole meters or in whole feet – never any finer than that. (And was it measured first in meters and converted to feet, or the other way around?) Can we actually measure it down to centimeters or to inches?
Bearing in mind, meanwhile, that elevation is relative to sea level, and sea level is itself a sampled and corrected average.
All this over an inch. Someone could stand up there and kick a rock and lower it by an inch.
Nick – I was born and raised in Michigan. I first moved east to New York and then I have been moving south since then – St. Louis and Oklahoma City.
Accent – The north has just as many different accents and phrases as the south. You’se vs y’all. Soda vs pop. I can go on concerning regional differences. Even NYC area has differences in accents.
Oh, my mom was from Latvia, so she had an accent. Up north, she was always questioned about where she was from, as if it was bad. When she was with me, my friends wanted to know about her life – they realized that she had a story and they wanted to hear it. They accepted her.
Racism – I encountered more racism/bigotry/prejudice/sexism in the north than in the south. I had issues at college because I was white from a certain area. While working, I got mugged in the north and my male supervisor (a partner) laughed when he heard about the mugging. In the south, nothing but kindness.
Nascar – really? we have far more interest than cars. The only car race I went to was Watkins Glens, NY. It is still cars going around a circle and I think that it is a boring sport. But, I like sailboat racing – I raced in the Great Lakes, the Finger Lakes and in a variety of places in the south. Different sports. But, the people in the south have always been nicer.
At my sailing club, we host national regattas. Generally, northerners were a pain in the ass while the southerners were fun!
I celebrate regional differences since it makes it fun to travel and see things. You apparently have some serious prejudices since you see a region and classify it with terms to downgrade it.
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Reminds me of Pluto…
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A young friend of mine who lives in the US has just returned to Kathmandu for her wedding. She hasn’t been home since the earthquake. It will be interesting to hear what she has to say about the changes there. Can you tell if your city has moved south? I do know that her father was very involved in the relief and rebuilding efforts.
“Can you tell if your city has moved south?”
Accent, racism, interest in NASCAR.
Has Mt. Everest dropped an inch? My first question goes to whether we can measure it to that level of accuracy?
I’ve always seen the altitude of Everest expressed in whole meters or in whole feet – never any finer than that. (And was it measured first in meters and converted to feet, or the other way around?) Can we actually measure it down to centimeters or to inches?
Bearing in mind, meanwhile, that elevation is relative to sea level, and sea level is itself a sampled and corrected average.
All this over an inch. Someone could stand up there and kick a rock and lower it by an inch.
Nick – I was born and raised in Michigan. I first moved east to New York and then I have been moving south since then – St. Louis and Oklahoma City.
Accent – The north has just as many different accents and phrases as the south. You’se vs y’all. Soda vs pop. I can go on concerning regional differences. Even NYC area has differences in accents.
Oh, my mom was from Latvia, so she had an accent. Up north, she was always questioned about where she was from, as if it was bad. When she was with me, my friends wanted to know about her life – they realized that she had a story and they wanted to hear it. They accepted her.
Racism – I encountered more racism/bigotry/prejudice/sexism in the north than in the south. I had issues at college because I was white from a certain area. While working, I got mugged in the north and my male supervisor (a partner) laughed when he heard about the mugging. In the south, nothing but kindness.
Nascar – really? we have far more interest than cars. The only car race I went to was Watkins Glens, NY. It is still cars going around a circle and I think that it is a boring sport. But, I like sailboat racing – I raced in the Great Lakes, the Finger Lakes and in a variety of places in the south. Different sports. But, the people in the south have always been nicer.
At my sailing club, we host national regattas. Generally, northerners were a pain in the ass while the southerners were fun!
I celebrate regional differences since it makes it fun to travel and see things. You apparently have some serious prejudices since you see a region and classify it with terms to downgrade it.