• 0 Posts
  • 16 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 20th, 2023

help-circle




  • Decent people being the people who have been educated and exposed to more cultural and ideological diversity than what you’re going to find in the ultra rural environment that is much of the south where the majority of your social circle is who you’re related to and who you see at church.

    The southern cities are much better but in most cases it’s 1 or 2 generations removed from that rural squalor. The advent of the Internet and the natural mixing of people’s from other parts of the country will continue to push the cities more diverse and accepting.


  • Lalaz4@kbin.socialtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I too have lived across the United States spending much of my formative years in the American South. Every single area has issues. You’ll find more bigotry in areas of low education or high ignorance. Both of those aspects can come from a variety of sources (religion, low wealth, poor education, isolation, etc).

    The thing I have never found useful though is hating a large, generalized group or area. You will always find a particular part of the country more acceptable to the way you want to live simply because the culture is aligned with the values that you hold. In my experience everyone is much more similar than they are different. For all the complaining you are doing about Southerner’s being bigoted, you yourself are holding animosity toward this group of people.

    If you understand the history of the region and look at the rampant corruption of the government in the area, you can come to understand the reason it is the way it is. I personally don’t hold it against them as most of it is directly attributed to ignorance, lack of experience with other cultures, the cult-like religious stranglehold, and general media misinformation. The majority of people are compassionate and are willing to accept others once some understanding is established in regards to outside cultures/ideals. Of course there are extremists who will not relent and those people thrive in areas of ignorance.

    “Fuck the South” contributes to the issues and further inhibits tolerance in an area that needs it the most.











  • The only way that it’ll become better is if the standard for the pug changes. The UK kennel club has updated it’s standard to include a healthier head and muzzle shape. Unfortunately the American Kennel Club has not yet done so. The pugs that are presented at Westminster are sickening.

    I also take beef with the awful roached back of the German Shepherd show standard.