Day 3
People are otherwise mostly nice, but the insults concerning my nationality are coming way too often. They think we are stupid.
It's not that I believe that people should never think or say anything like that. As far as I am concerned you can say all you want about any nation's intelligence, and as long as you are not pissing on my front door and not running for office I am fine with it. Saying "X are soooo stupid!" in the presense of a person whom you know to be of the X nationality is, however, an instance of extremely bad manners.
I choose to give people the benefit of doubt and decide that they are not doing it to piss me off but are doing it out of habit without realizing that they are being rude. The habit is even understandable, considering that they have an office in the country X and that the X work culture is not particularly nice.
Saying "X are sooo stupid" is not considered politically incorrect due to the fact that X is an industrial country mostly populated by white people. I do' however, have a strong temptation to ask one of these people how they feel about the collective intelligence of Somalis, Nigerians or people of some other country where religious fundamentalism is high, gross national product per capita is low and women are treated like shit.
It's not that I believe that people should never think or say anything like that. As far as I am concerned you can say all you want about any nation's intelligence, and as long as you are not pissing on my front door and not running for office I am fine with it. Saying "X are soooo stupid!" in the presense of a person whom you know to be of the X nationality is, however, an instance of extremely bad manners.
I choose to give people the benefit of doubt and decide that they are not doing it to piss me off but are doing it out of habit without realizing that they are being rude. The habit is even understandable, considering that they have an office in the country X and that the X work culture is not particularly nice.
Saying "X are sooo stupid" is not considered politically incorrect due to the fact that X is an industrial country mostly populated by white people. I do' however, have a strong temptation to ask one of these people how they feel about the collective intelligence of Somalis, Nigerians or people of some other country where religious fundamentalism is high, gross national product per capita is low and women are treated like shit.
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