LizzieMaine
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What have they got against Nova Scotians anyway?
I've always maintained that those who are entitled to the greatest outrage over stereotypes on that show are those whose religious, racial, or ethnic group have never been lampooned. It's almost like saying, "Well, your people really are not important enough to poke fun at."
That would be a coonass. However, in our present environment some folks have taken offense to the term. It seems about evenly split between the offended and those who are proud of and embrace the term.I think other parts of the country have the equivalent of a hillbilly, from Swamp Yankee to whatever they call a Cajun living on the bayou.
That would be a coonass. However, in our present environment some folks have taken offense to the term. It seems about evenly split between the offended and those who are proud of and embrace the term.
Perhaps you'd like to read that over and think about what you're suggesting. And while you're at it, perhaps you'd like to explain how government help for college expenses is "not that hard to get."
The parabale of the Good Samaritan comes to mind. Pity so few today understand its lesson.
I once had a rather disastrous side-of-the-road breakdown, and all sorts of "nice people" drove by oblivious -- but a rough-looking biker gang stopped and helped.
On the other hand, for some of us it is difficult to not stop: leaving someone by the side of the road is something you just don't do. That may well be a regional thing. In parts of the country, folks are aware that someone else may not be along for a while. In west TX about ten years ago, I stopped at an apparent breakdown. The driver had tried to change a tire and the jack shifted, pinning his leg under the truck. He said I was the first person to drive down the road in more than a day.However, it's not easy to blame people for not stopping as growing up in the '70s, there were stories - in local papers - of people faking breakdowns to rob / kidnap / hurt those who stopped to help them. Having lived in big cities since, I don't really know what goes on anymore, but when I got my license, schools and parents were telling new drivers not to stop to help unless you knew the car you were stopping for.