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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Neko-chan, you might look at the Aptera, which (hopefully) will become available in California in a few months. The safest motorcycle (sic) ever designed (to date), and electric, to boot.
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The Aptera looks very nice, but
far out of my price range.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Sorry to be testy, but as a Texan, I've been at the receiving end of dikta from well-meaning urbanites who have had no clue about Texas conditions and culture for all my life (50+) years. And if you disagree, you're treated as an ignorant child, who really should just listen to his/her betters. It's the same attitude that brought forth the term "Ugly American" in many foreign countries. And we can't even yell "Yankee, go home!" here....I'm afraid I've grown rather thin-skinned about the attitude, "if only you'd do things our way the world would be a much better place." I respond "prove it!", and then things get lively...
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I can appreciate your point of view. We don't all live in the same kinds of places. I, for example, live in relatively rural New Hampshire, but "rural" here does not have the same meaning it does in Texas, I'm sure. (Again, I'm only 7 miles from a small college campus.) I do, however, have snow to deal with!
Taking "culture" into account is trickier. I think we all have a lot of unquestioned assumptions about what is acceptable based on what we've always done or always seen done, and some of these assumptions are defended under the banner of "culture." On the other hand, cultural identity is part of what makes us human. And there can be just as many unquestioned assumptions about what "other people" are doing "wrong" as there are about what we are doing ourselves being fine. I think I'll go with Socrates that "the unconsidered life is not worth living" and leave it at that.
