Are People Really all Alike....or did someone make that up to keep us calm???
I have had the pleasure of living in a few neat places in this country. Providence, RI where I hail from and Springdale Arkansas, where I lived for 3 years. In addition I hung my hat in Joplin, Missouri for 5 years and now for the last 8 years I call Pikeville, Kentucky my home.
My question to you is: Do you think people from different parts of the country are basically different or the same?
Now personally, I am used to all the stereotypical attitudes that abound. Shortly after I moved to Pikeville, some people began calling me the " Damn Yankee" I loved the name and would always respond " and proud of it".
We all have images of people from other parts of the country and as we are want to do, we lump everyone together. Here's a bulletin for you but I am sure you already know this. Not everyone from north of the Mason-Dixon line is a gangster and they all don't speak like Don Corleone from "The Godfather". And not all the people from the Ozarks run around barefoot and not all the girls under 18 years old are pregnant.
And lets face it, Eastern Kentucky has its own share of misconceptions that people harbor. Like for example not everyone here is on the draw or strung out on drugs....See what I mean? Some things are true about some people everywhere.
Everywhere my life's travels have taken I have met people who I am honored to call my friends for life. By the way, I define a friend as someone you can call at 3am and ask them anything. When I was preparing to move to Pikeville 8 years ago, I called Bill Weaver ( Joplin, MO ) and asked him to fly to Providence and drive my moving van to Pikeville. All Bill said was, "When do you need me?"
Oh, we all talk a bit differently ( I will write about that very soon ) and some of our favorite foods are different, but all in all we really are pretty much the same....Thank goodness.
We all agree our schools should be better, we all hate the high price of gasoline. Nobody is making enough money. And nobody and I mean nobody, trusts anyone in political office. And we all have our favorite chair.....:)
Folks, we really are in this thing together.......
My question to you is: Do you think people from different parts of the country are basically different or the same?
Now personally, I am used to all the stereotypical attitudes that abound. Shortly after I moved to Pikeville, some people began calling me the " Damn Yankee" I loved the name and would always respond " and proud of it".
We all have images of people from other parts of the country and as we are want to do, we lump everyone together. Here's a bulletin for you but I am sure you already know this. Not everyone from north of the Mason-Dixon line is a gangster and they all don't speak like Don Corleone from "The Godfather". And not all the people from the Ozarks run around barefoot and not all the girls under 18 years old are pregnant.
And lets face it, Eastern Kentucky has its own share of misconceptions that people harbor. Like for example not everyone here is on the draw or strung out on drugs....See what I mean? Some things are true about some people everywhere.
Everywhere my life's travels have taken I have met people who I am honored to call my friends for life. By the way, I define a friend as someone you can call at 3am and ask them anything. When I was preparing to move to Pikeville 8 years ago, I called Bill Weaver ( Joplin, MO ) and asked him to fly to Providence and drive my moving van to Pikeville. All Bill said was, "When do you need me?"
Oh, we all talk a bit differently ( I will write about that very soon ) and some of our favorite foods are different, but all in all we really are pretty much the same....Thank goodness.
We all agree our schools should be better, we all hate the high price of gasoline. Nobody is making enough money. And nobody and I mean nobody, trusts anyone in political office. And we all have our favorite chair.....:)
Folks, we really are in this thing together.......
posted by Peter Girouard at
6:34 PM
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