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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, I can tell you that about 99.9% of The People "get" Indian humor and 
they don't even have to be from the same tribes.  And, yes, there is "Indian 
time," and y'all just need to get over it <g>  And we have our own universal 
language that folks that haven't been assimilated into white society 
understand.  I can travel all over the U.S. and stop at most any rez and 
we'll be able to communicate with little or no commonality other than 
ethnicity.  And I don't mean talk, I mean communicate.

So, does that make me a racist?  Can I be a racist if I'm talking about my 
"us"?  Hmmmm, I'll have to contemplate this.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> > > All "black people" are not the same. Period, full stop.
>
> No need to be racist about it.  All people are not the same.  It is 
> utterly
> naive to think that a person's race, religion, age, and culture do not 
> have a
> lot to do with how they think and act.  If you come to a place with a 
> strong
> culture, you had better be prepared for most people to deal alike with 
> some
> issues and act alike on some things.
>
> Taking a Soylent Green approach ("It's PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE!") is not a
> substitute for actual observation and experience.
>
> That's what made me opine that I very much seriously doubt your wider
> exposure to different cultures.  If had such exposure, you would see that 
> it is
> counter-producitve to set aside reality for political correctness.  You 
> can always
> find exceptions, but defined groups of people often act relilably in
> predictable ways ... period, full stop.