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Hildegard15 · Post by **Hildegard15** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:51 pm

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:53 pm

doublehoohopeful wrote:
Hildegard15 wrote:Us Northwesterners hold a healthy level of fear in our hearts for the psycho-ness that seems to permeate from the South. I'm sure the schools themselves would be lovely. It is a prejudice I hold near and dear to my heart though. No talking me out of it.
Have you actually ever been to these places? This whole thing reeks of naive and intellectually lazy generalizations.

Agreed. Someone could easily say this about any region.

urbanist11 · Post by **urbanist11** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:55 pm

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whacka · Post by **whacka** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:57 pm

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doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:59 pm

Hildegard15 wrote:
doublehoohopeful wrote:
Hildegard15 wrote:Us Northwesterners hold a healthy level of fear in our hearts for the psycho-ness that seems to permeate from the South. I'm sure the schools themselves would be lovely. It is a prejudice I hold near and dear to my heart though. No talking me out of it.
Have you actually ever been to these places? This whole thing reeks of naive and intellectually lazy generalizations.
I OBVIOUSLY have never been to the south and these are CLEARLY generalizations which I have based SOLELY on our nation's history/current goings on I happen to read about in articles. Doublehoo, please re read above post more closely for the tone of my statements. I do hold these prejudices but as I CLEARLY STATE ABOVE, I recognize them for what they are.

Enjoy Berkeley!

Hildegard15 · Post by **Hildegard15** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:00 pm

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basedvulpes · Post by **basedvulpes** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:01 pm

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:05 pm

basedvulpes wrote:

Can't forget the extra OHNOES and FEAR the large Middle Eastern population in Detroit brings.

doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:10 pm

The Abyss wrote:
basedvulpes wrote:

Can't forget the extra OHNOES and FEAR the large Middle Eastern population in Detroit brings.

For real though, one of my professors brought baklava and other goodies from Dearborn, MI one day. It was some of the best I've ever had.

Hildegard15 · Post by **Hildegard15** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:11 pm

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:14 pm

doublehoohopeful wrote:
The Abyss wrote:
basedvulpes wrote:

Can't forget the extra OHNOES and FEAR the large Middle Eastern population in Detroit brings.
For real though, one of my professors brought baklava and other goodies from Deerfield, MI one day. It was some of the best I've ever had.

You probably meant Dearborn, which is where the largest concentration of Middle Eastern folks live. It's also right around where I grew up.

Yeah, the food is incredible. Baklava, tabouli, shawarma, etc. So delicious.

Generally · Post by **Generally** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:15 pm

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doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:16 pm

The Abyss wrote:
You probably meant Dearborn, which is where the largest concentration of Middle Eastern folks live. It's also right around where I grew up.

Yeah, the food is incredible. Baklava, tabouli, shawarma, etc. So delicious.

Yeah, my bad, I knew it was Dear/Deer something.

The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:16 pm

Hildegard15 wrote:
The Abyss wrote:
basedvulpes wrote:

Can't forget the extra OHNOES and FEAR the large Middle Eastern population in Detroit brings.
Should add a big HIPPIES over Oregon

Hippies who make delicious beer. Such as the beer my username comes from.

Generally · Post by **Generally** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:18 pm

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doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:18 pm

The Abyss wrote:
Hippies who make delicious beer. Such as the beer my username comes from.

They know how to make a donut, too

The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:20 pm

doublehoohopeful wrote:
The Abyss wrote:
Hippies who make delicious beer. Such as the beer my username comes from.
They know how to make a donut, too

Is that a Captain Crunch Berries doughnut I see there in the middle?

doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:22 pm

Generally wrote:If I end up living in Texas someday I will immediately adopt this attitude.

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doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:23 pm

The Abyss wrote:
doublehoohopeful wrote:
The Abyss wrote:
Hippies who make delicious beer. Such as the beer my username comes from.
They know how to make a donut, too

Is that a Captain Crunch Berries doughnut I see there in the middle?

Oh yeah. Voodoo Donuts is insane. They once made a NyQuil one, but were ordered by local health officials to stop.

pittsburghpirates · Post by **pittsburghpirates** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:24 pm

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barley · Post by **barley** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:25 pm

Generally wrote:
Hildegard15 wrote:
urbanist11 wrote:
Hildegard15 wrote:
urbanist11 wrote:
I'm applying West Coast, Midwest, East Coast, and South (Duke & UVA)
I am breaking my "nothing south of the mason dixon line" rule just for Duke and UVA. We will see if I live to regret it.
Why would you? Politics? There will be conservatives at Harvard/Columbia/nyu etc and liberals at duke/UVA.
Us Northwesterners hold a healthy level of fear in our hearts for the psycho-ness that seems to permeate from the South. I'm sure the schools themselves would be lovely. It is a prejudice I hold near and dear to my heart though. No talking me out of it.
This makes me want to yell at you. Don't label regions as psycho please There is lots that could be said of northerners/the north, but I choose to acknowledge it is a different culture but not a "bad" one. I am interested in studying up north because it would be something new, I might just learn something from people who think a bit different than me. The same could happen with you in the South.

I typed out a really long and excessively thought out reply about how a lot of what I hear about the South really does outrage me (sorry, General), but that I sort of find the idea of studying there appealing precisely for the reasons you mentioned. I feel like it would teach me how to live and work with people who hold radically different values, without resorting to moral outrage or self-righteousness or anything (because we all know that that's annoying an ineffectual). But you put it much better and more succinctly than I did!

The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:25 pm

doublehoohopeful wrote:Oh yeah. Voodoo Donuts is insane. They once made a NyQuil one, but were ordered by local health officials to stop.

basedvulpes · Post by **basedvulpes** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:28 pm

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doublehoohopeful · Post by **doublehoohopeful** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:28 pm

The Abyss wrote:
doublehoohopeful wrote:Oh yeah. Voodoo Donuts is insane. They once made a NyQuil one, but were ordered by local health officials to stop.

Also a Pepto Bismol glazed with crushed Tums, also discontinued.

Hildegard15 · Post by **Hildegard15** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:34 pm

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