Re: Friendly, not rude,even to Californians
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1/3/2007
I would agree that a smile and courtesy almost always help. Even when someone shares an opinion or "seems different". In some places, the tendency in the population can be to shut someone down or ignore and isolate them if they share opinions, disagree, or are otherwise"different", and over time, that "cold shoulder", too, can be considered "rude". That cold shoulder can often arise in Denver, and seemingly as a cultural phenomenon. Whether or not that "cold shoulder" is a bad thing, or whether vast expanses of suburban sprawl are bad things, or whether a tendency toward homogeneity and perhaps even materialism/consumerism are bad things, seem to be the questions through many of these posts.
joe | Denver, CO