Posted by Psychopoppy on January 29, 2004, at 23:59:50
In reply to Jealous women at work - what to do about them?, posted by PhoenixGirl on January 27, 2004, at 19:20:36
I totaly second all of those who have commented (and reiterated) the ludicrousy and inaccuracy in making broad, general statements and assumptions regarding people of any one race or any one culture or any one sex or whatever combination thereof.
I have lived on five different continents in my life (and travelled to many countries) and what I have learnt is that the one thing that every place has in common is... their inhabitants, although having certain group commonalities, exist in all different varieties and variations.
So no matter how big or small a group you consider (ex. Americans, Bostonians, Upper-east-side blacks, folks who work at Enron Corp., Building 7, the sixth floor, marketing division, all the division asst.managers.....), there's plenty of individual differences to go around and if one took the time to actually look, the variety (and diversity) would become obvious.SO, when I hear people say things like..."I think that whole group of people hates me for whatever reason or that they all behave in such-and-such way towards people who are like this-or-that (double generalization), then its so screamingly clear that the analysis needs to be turned inwards, as in, into the self.
poster:Psychopoppy
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