Atleast in the 1980's Americans lived on average ~8 years in the same area (I don't know how this was defined), while Europeans lived ~16 years. As far as I remember, the study tried to only include the active work-force.
Well.. in some respects I most certainly am clueless about the cultural differences inside the US.
I do not however think I am contradictory.
Fairly homegeneous as in 'quite alot more homogenous than Africa, Europe or Asia'. 'Pretending you're all alike' as in 'an emphasis on considering the common factors, rather than focusing on the differences'.
The American workforce is more mobile, and Americans move around alot more than Europeans.
The American generally has a larger set of people he considers friends
These two stetements are facts. Along with a little opinionated prejudice, I translates this to 'shallow'. However, as I said in first post, shallow is just open and friendly with a different connotation.
If you honestly think that Americans are more 'shallow' than Europeons then you are a fool.
I do, I honestly do.
As for you not believing there are any differences, well.. you live in an extremely large fairly homogenous country, which is built upon the foundation of pretending you're all alike.
Just here in Scandinivia there is a distinct difference between Danish and Norwegians. I attribute this mostly to the fact that Denmark has better weather and get to spend more time outside, aswell as Denmark carving out an existance as a small country right next to so many big ones. In norway, we spend most our time inside quite simply because of the fact that it's freezing outside.
That's just because you're misattrubuting. I'm not putting you into a group which define who you are, what you eat and who your friends are. I am merely making the observation that a larger percentage of americans seem to be deeply concerned with wealth than what I've noticed in Europe. Others have done this observation too, so it isn't exactly ground-breaking news.
Just because the data-set is large doesn't mean there isn't tendencies. In this case, I believe the tendencies to be fairly clear, just ask just about any European who've worked in the US.
I would also like to point out that I used 'greedy' more as in 'concerned with wealth' than 'not generous/giving'.
It's a sad world when the denizens of the beacon for Freedom and Democrazy solve every problem with "What, you didn't post your political opinions anonymously?!" and "What?! You kept logs for more than 3 minutes? God, the FBI might get them"
You guys have a weird definition of the word 'Freedom'.
shorten it to greed and you got it right. Americans are no worse than other humans.
Aww.. come on, I might just be succombing to popular myths here, but I seriously don't think that is true.
Morals and behaviour are what you make it out to be. Americans generally (or atleast; more than Europeans) equate money with success, have a high focus on making it the business-life and are generally extremely hard-working. Aswell,a larger percentage of Americans identify themselves by how much money they earn.
Add up all those factors, and I'll think you'll end up with Americans being much more greedy than others.
Just like Americans generally are more shallow (or rather, on the positive side; more friendly/open..which means pretty much the same just with different connotations) than Europeans, partly due to moving around more (more mobile work-force, lack of good social security making people have to move to where they get jobs) and thus less likely to keep the same friends for extended periods of time.
In physics, do we say that force is about equal to mass times acceleration?
Not that I'm very good at physics, but we do actually do this don't we?
Isn't F=MA one of the laws that break down near lightspeed? We don't actually write out the 'about' or 'for all practical purposes', but it is certainly implied AFAIK.
On that note, given how many laws in physic which are simplified, shortened I don't see much of a problem when a law actually for once acknowledges this.
As far as I'm concerned, it shouldn't be named a Law either, but that is because it is just an obvservation (albeit a good one9 and isn't 'generally true'.
There is a large difference between an american-african and an african, between spanish and your hispanics, and between real asians and your asians. The skin color isn't what's important here, it's how they act and what they do.
I don't find this very strange. People adapt, and their expectations change.
Most people learn to spot spam at a glance, so even though total amount may have increased even those without spamfilters probably use less and less time deleting it. That doesn't mean we accept it more though, it just mean we aren't as bothered by it as we used to.
A company that wants to discharge some nanotechnological waste should be subject to exactly the same scrutiny as a company that wants to discharge a new chemical
In my opinion, the numerous cases of companies willfullingly evading pollution controls and dumping known harmfull stuff where it shouldn't shows that the regular approach to this just ain't cutting it.
When the potential damage goes up, so should the safe-guards.
Sometimes, tt's fun to notice how english centric slashdot is. Given how many Europeans without english as native language there are here, it is kinda surprising at times.
Mandriva; good pronounication in the scandivian languages, spanish, german, french and spanish.
Mandrake; good pronounication in english.
>p>
Majority of posters complain about pronounication:)
privitising social security or pumping oil out of Iraq.
This is a subtle troll right? Why are people replying seriously to you?
The supposed goal of privatising social security is to save money, not spend it.
The oil in Iraq is not yours to pump, and it's the government of Iraq who are responsible to awarding contracts for oil-drilling to private corporations (if they choose so). No matter how much of a us-led puppet the government is, the country of Iraw still belongs to the Iraw..atleast in theory.
I have not had any problems with SP2, but then again I assembled all of my machines or had them assembled from name brand aftermarket parts.
It's a laptop you dolt:)
Either way, I actually wanted a rather large laptop with a large screen, and Dell was the only offer I could find where i didn't bankrupting myself. If I'd been a been a choice between moderatly equal alternatives I would have shyed away from Dell too.
Norwegian law would be the ones in question here, and it still sane.
We're currently debating wether to implement the new copyright etc laws though. (and be 'we' I mean fringe left and some computer scientists complaining, while the main stream press keep their daily schedule of reporting fairly amazingly trivial and non-important 'news')
You know, when I was young I thought all those prejudices were just crap..
Then I visited London..
Then I visited Paris..
Then I met Americans travelling..
So far, the only place which hasn't been one large trip of getting prejudices fullfilled was New York, however I did get my ass kicked by one white trash wrestling maniac in a, off all places, fairly arty pub.. I still have no idea why, although I think he thought my mate was trying to hit on his girlfriend.
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I do not, honestly, think I've read anything ever that fit all 4 criteria. I hope they really meant to write 'or' instead of 'and' here.
Twin Kingdom Valley!
Actually, the cones are slightly more sensitive to Yellow / mid-spectrum light, hence most people associtiating yellow with bright.
Laughing Out Loud, but I think Resurrection is cool?!
You some kind'a maniac?
Atleast in the 1980's Americans lived on average ~8 years in the same area (I don't know how this was defined), while Europeans lived ~16 years. As far as I remember, the study tried to only include the active work-force.
I do not however think I am contradictory. Fairly homegeneous as in 'quite alot more homogenous than Africa, Europe or Asia'. 'Pretending you're all alike' as in 'an emphasis on considering the common factors, rather than focusing on the differences'.
The American workforce is more mobile, and Americans move around alot more than Europeans.
The American generally has a larger set of people he considers friends
These two stetements are facts. Along with a little opinionated prejudice, I translates this to 'shallow'. However, as I said in first post, shallow is just open and friendly with a different connotation.
I do, I honestly do.
As for you not believing there are any differences, well.. you live in an extremely large fairly homogenous country, which is built upon the foundation of pretending you're all alike.
Just here in Scandinivia there is a distinct difference between Danish and Norwegians. I attribute this mostly to the fact that Denmark has better weather and get to spend more time outside, aswell as Denmark carving out an existance as a small country right next to so many big ones. In norway, we spend most our time inside quite simply because of the fact that it's freezing outside.
Just because the data-set is large doesn't mean there isn't tendencies. In this case, I believe the tendencies to be fairly clear, just ask just about any European who've worked in the US.
I would also like to point out that I used 'greedy' more as in 'concerned with wealth' than 'not generous/giving'.
All foreigners are female?
"What, you didn't post your political opinions anonymously?!" and
"What?! You kept logs for more than 3 minutes? God, the FBI might get them"
You guys have a weird definition of the word 'Freedom'.
Aww.. come on, I might just be succombing to popular myths here, but I seriously don't think that is true.
Morals and behaviour are what you make it out to be. Americans generally (or atleast; more than Europeans) equate money with success, have a high focus on making it the business-life and are generally extremely hard-working. Aswell,a larger percentage of Americans identify themselves by how much money they earn.
Add up all those factors, and I'll think you'll end up with Americans being much more greedy than others.
Just like Americans generally are more shallow (or rather, on the positive side; more friendly/open..which means pretty much the same just with different connotations) than Europeans, partly due to moving around more (more mobile work-force, lack of good social security making people have to move to where they get jobs) and thus less likely to keep the same friends for extended periods of time.
Not that I'm very good at physics, but we do actually do this don't we?
Isn't F=MA one of the laws that break down near lightspeed? We don't actually write out the 'about' or 'for all practical purposes', but it is certainly implied AFAIK.
On that note, given how many laws in physic which are simplified, shortened I don't see much of a problem when a law actually for once acknowledges this.
As far as I'm concerned, it shouldn't be named a Law either, but that is because it is just an obvservation (albeit a good one9 and isn't 'generally true'.
There is a large difference between an american-african and an african, between spanish and your hispanics, and between real asians and your asians. The skin color isn't what's important here, it's how they act and what they do.
Bah, the problem here is required attendance.
We're all grown-ups. Lets act like it.
No, it doesn't? Atleast not Norwegian, Swedish, Danish ot Islandish. I'm not up to speed in Finnish though, but it's hardly a scandivian language.
I don't find this very strange. People adapt, and their expectations change.
Most people learn to spot spam at a glance, so even though total amount may have increased even those without spamfilters probably use less and less time deleting it. That doesn't mean we accept it more though, it just mean we aren't as bothered by it as we used to.
In my opinion, the numerous cases of companies willfullingly evading pollution controls and dumping known harmfull stuff where it shouldn't shows that the regular approach to this just ain't cutting it.
When the potential damage goes up, so should the safe-guards.
Mandriva; good pronounication in the scandivian languages, spanish, german, french and spanish.
Mandrake; good pronounication in english. >p> Majority of posters complain about pronounication :)
This is a subtle troll right? Why are people replying seriously to you?
The supposed goal of privatising social security is to save money, not spend it.
The oil in Iraq is not yours to pump, and it's the government of Iraq who are responsible to awarding contracts for oil-drilling to private corporations (if they choose so). No matter how much of a us-led puppet the government is, the country of Iraw still belongs to the Iraw..atleast in theory.
It's a laptop you dolt :)
Either way, I actually wanted a rather large laptop with a large screen, and Dell was the only offer I could find where i didn't bankrupting myself. If I'd been a been a choice between moderatly equal alternatives I would have shyed away from Dell too.
It's a dell Inspiron 8200 using the supplied Windows XP Home, and I certainly know I'm not the only one with problems.
We're currently debating wether to implement the new copyright etc laws though. (and be 'we' I mean fringe left and some computer scientists complaining, while the main stream press keep their daily schedule of reporting fairly amazingly trivial and non-important 'news')
You know what?
I have a slight feeling the guys who enrolled in Philosophy 101 and got stoned had a better time.
You know, when I was young I thought all those prejudices were just crap..
Then I visited London..
Then I visited Paris..
Then I met Americans travelling..
So far, the only place which hasn't been one large trip of getting prejudices fullfilled was New York, however I did get my ass kicked by one white trash wrestling maniac in a, off all places, fairly arty pub.. I still have no idea why, although I think he thought my mate was trying to hit on his girlfriend.