[QUOTE=DG69]Well, Syzygy X, I am not sure if there is a forum rule not to insult a special group of people, or single persons.[/QUOTE]No one can deny there's such a thing as cultural differences. Then within cultures there's also differences. Here in VN I saw an Indian walk into a hostess bar, and the girl I was with begged off of our having a drink because she said he was her really good customer. He was tall, handsome (in that Bollywood leading man way) and dressed classy, expensive watch, etc. My guess is he was a well-off businessman, probly upper class. This is not a guy who would try to shove his way to the front of a queue at 7-11. So there's also class differences and individual differences involved. I mean, imagine if Thais judged whites according to the English football hooligan types they saw in Pattaya. Humans seemed to be programmed to think in this irrational way, switching to "THEY" so easily and associating "they" with a particular race,automatically. But if a red cube doesn't roll down a slope, but a blue ball does, you don't think it's due to their colors. If a vast majority of balls you saw were blue, and cubes red, you might be forgiven for thinking so, but hopefully you'd still be able to figure out that it's not the color. But the shapes do correspond to 'culture' -- so as long as you realize there's variation in Indian culture -- strong trends but also significant deviations, then you're on the path to a healthier way of looking at it. IMHO.
