Comments on: Where cultures cross

By: Tat

Tat — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:36:17 +0000

You just confirmed my point.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:45:19 +0000

Why on earth would anyone even consider asking my advice about the stock market in the first place? I have a 401(k) in the middle five figures that lost about $180 today. If this confers experience, I’m hanging out my shingle as a Community Financial Advisor.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:38:15 +0000

Remind me not to ask your advice about stock market.

It’s just common sense, as I see it, that Bosnian (who, after all, lived in a muslim-populated country and has actual life experience with Islam) is closer, in all probability, to truth than McGehee (as entertaining his version as it is).
Your hesitation to judge, so common to many Americans, is why Dearborn, MI is no longer American city.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:50:42 +0000

I’d probably just smile at the apparent incongruity, remind myself that life is full of interesting moments

Best answer so far.

By: Bounded Rationality

Bounded Rationality — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:40:44 +0000

My Early Cultural Perceptions…

I’ve met him once, and on that one and only observation, I think he would be a great neighbor to have. I enjoy very much reading whatever it is he’s thinking. This particular blog entry (which is in reference to another post) struck me today……

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:37:39 +0000

I tend to think that when we “project,” it’s kind of like when we “assume,” and we all know what happens when you assume.

I’d probably just smile at the apparent incongruity, remind myself that life is full of interesting moments, and move on to the historical fiction section (which was probably where I was bound in the first place…)

By: CGHill

CGHill — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:51:09 +0000

At that level of implausibility, it’s hard to pick between ‘em.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:44:49 +0000

So, Chaz, which suggestion you find to be more plausible, McGehee’s or the Bosnian’s?

Or you still “don’t know”?

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:45:00 +0000

I may be trying to come up with something no one else is saying, but I want to think she’s just an ordinary American gal who likes those bodice-rippers but doesn’t want to chance being recognized at the bookstore perusing them.

Probably her friends’ “book club” only ever reads Proust and Kierkegaard.

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:20:20 +0000

Yes, but some explanations are more likely than the others.
F.ex, variant with “a woman from Pakistan nostalgic for books of her girlhood” is much more unlikely than the version provided by a Bosnian.

By: Dwayne "the canoe guy"

Dwayne "the canoe guy" — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:06:45 +0000

I once saw a woman in a full burka in a Wal-Mart parking lot and she was with two men. As I walked past I almost…almost.. stopped and gave a wolf whistle and said “YEAH, BABEEEEEEE!”, just to be stupid and see what would happen.

I’m so glad that I’m older and have some self restraint.