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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: New Yorkers
- Message-ID: <2655@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:43:00 GMT
- Sender: news+@pitt.edu
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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- As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in New York, I must comment
- on what was said about New Yorkers. First let me say that I do not
- consider myself a New Yorker, and that I didn't particularly enjoy
- working in New York. However, I have to say that there were many things
- about New York which I did enjoy (and I don't even really like
- cities), and that I met some of the kindest people there. Despite
- the fact that the media have regularly advertised the belief that
- American citiersxxx cities are centers of racial, ethnic and religious
- conflict, I must also say that I met some of the most tolerant people
- in New York. Knowing people from Europe and Asia, I have to satxxx
- say that also knowing social conditions for foreigners in some of those
- places (Chinese in Paris, for instance), I'd be surprised to leanxxx
- learn that foreign cities are any more tolerant than the American ones
- I've visited.
- Don't get nexx me wrong- I have friends both in Texas, and in Europe.
- One of my friends in Texas used to exalt in the Texas atmosphere (he
- was a transplanted Yankee), and the Texas friendliness, but I could
- never help but wonder what sort of reception he might have gotten,
- were he black.
-