permaculture

["Kathy Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>]

Toshio, Wow, I truly didn't know that asking where someone was from was 
offensive...if that's the case, I'll cease and desist. I'm always interested 
in culture and language and story, I have asked people that. When I say "pop" 
instead of soda, people immediately ask if I'm from the Upper Midwest, which 
I am. I figure our ethnic/cultural/language differences are obvious, that we 
aren't all Anglo-Euro, and that it was okay to ask about it. I never imagined 
it to be something that separates us, more something that appreciates our 
differences. It doesn't make me think someone is less American. I write 
people's biographies for a living, and nothing is more interesting to me than 
a person's "story." But I can see your point, and I'm sure it's tiresome and 
now I know that it is offensive. I will take your word for it. Always 
something new to learn.   thanks. Kathy


Kathy Evans
evansdk@earthlink.net